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On 8/31/23 12:52, Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Thu, 2023-08-31 at 10:59 +0530, Ashutosh Bapat wrote:
>> The server's FDW has to be postgres_fdw. So we have to handle the
>> awkward dependency between core and postgres_fdw (an extension).
> 
> That sounds more than just "awkward". I can't think of any precedent
> for that and it seems to violate the idea of an "extension" entirely.
> 
> Can you explain more concretely how we might resolve that?


Maybe move postgres_fdw to be a first class built in feature instead of 
an extension?

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