On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> wrote: > > > On 06/13/2011 10:25 AM, Dave Page wrote: >> >>> Don't hold your breath. We'll probably be making enough changes in the >>> FDW infrastructure (particularly planner support) that making an FDW >>> work on both 9.1 and 9.2 would be an exercise in frustration, if it's >>> even possible. >> >> Oh joy. There's a GSoC student working on 2 non-trivial FDW's right >> now, and I have a couple I've been working on. If we're going to make >> the API incompatible to that extent, we might as well not bother :-( >> > > If nobody bothers then there won't be any experience on which to base a > stable API. In particular, I think it's crucial that we get working FDWs for > MySQL, SQLServer and Oracle ASAP.
Yeah - MySQL is one of the ones I've been hacking on. It's hard to be motivated if its going to need a complete rewrite within a year though. I'll still have to work on it, as I've committed to giving talks on it, but others might not bother to even start. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
