On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Christopher Browne <cbbro...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Aidan Van Dyk <ai...@highrise.ca> wrote: >>> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> wrote: >>> >>>> 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. >>> >>> It's a double-edged sword. If nobody writes anything, because >>> everyone is afraid to possibly having to change things, nothing will >>> never need to be changed ;-) >> >> It might be that the process of writing the MySQL FDW code would show >> off things that'll need to get changed. >> >> So the breakage might turn out to be Dave's fault! :-) >> >> [Seriously.] >> >> We really won't know what needs fixing/improving until nontrivial FDWs >> get written, and it would be somewhat ironic, but really not hugely >> surprising, if Dave wound up requesting changes to the underlying API >> to *properly* support what he writes. >> >> There's some degree of irony and amusement to be found here, but >> nothing that strikes me as disturbing. > > Oh, I can imagine that happening; what I would expect though is that > we make some attempt to retain compatibility to avoid the need for > total rewrites of FDWs as Tom seems to be expecting. > > BTW; it seems to me this should be documented, as it could really hack > off developers. I can't see anything in the docs to imply the API > might be radically redesigned.
And I'm still unconvinced that it's needed. I think we're going to end up adding on things that are missing and maybe replacing things that are just stubs, but I don't see why we'd whack it around just for fun. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: 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
