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From: Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Zhang Mingli <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Proposal to CREATE FOREIGN TABLE LIKE
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2025 13:20:17 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42d3f855-2275-4361-a42a-826172ca2dc4@Spark>

On 2025-Feb-01, Zhang Mingli wrote:

> Our DBA team uses foreign tables for ETL processes in Greenplum and Cloudberry,
> and we often need to create foreign tables that match the column definitions of local tables.
> 
> When dealing with wide tables and lots of those foreign tables, it can get pretty tedious and mistakes happen easily.

Sure.  Did you consider IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA?

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