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To: Zhang Mingli <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Proposal to CREATE FOREIGN TABLE LIKE
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2025 14:24:29 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <db68bd6f-6085-4152-8799-82ac929b256d@Spark>
On 2025-Feb-01, Zhang Mingli wrote:
> For example, we use kafka_fdw to produce and consume data from a Kafka
> server. In our scenario, we sometimes need to write records from a
> local table into Kafka. Here’s a brief outline of our process:
>
> 1. We already have a wide table, local_wide_table in Postgres.
> 2. We need to create a foreign table, foreign_table, with the same
> definition as local_wide_table.
> 3. Insert records into foreign_table by selecting
> from local_wide_table with the some quals.
>
> In step 2, we currently have to manually create the foreign table
> using CREATE FOREIGN TABLE and copy the column definitions one by one.
Eh yeah, I guess for this use case it makes sense to allow a LIKE clause
on CREATE FOREIGN TABLE. Were you going to submit a patch?
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Álvaro Herrera Breisgau, Deutschland — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
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