On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 09:37:43PM -0500, Corey Huinker wrote: > A few months ago, I was researching ways for formalizing calling functions > on one postgres instance from another. RPC, basically. In doing so, I > stumbled across an obscure part of the the SQL Standard called ROUTINE > MAPPING, which is exactly what I'm looking for. > > The syntax specified is, roughly: > > CREATE ROUTINE MAPPING local_routine_name FOR remote_routine_spec > SERVER my_server [ OPTIONS( ... ) ]
[neat use cases elided] For what it's worth, the now-defunct DBI-Link I wrote had remote_execute(), which did many of the things you describe here, only with no help from the rest of PostgreSQL, as it was implemented strictly in userland. Best, David. -- David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
