On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 10:15:27AM +0200, Andres Freund wrote: > On 2015-08-31 20:54:51 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Uh, we already have a list of things we need to add to FDWs to make them > > work, and Citus Data has provided a document of more things that are > > needed, https://goo.gl/vJWF85. I am not sure how much bigger a red flag > > you want to confirm that everyone agrees that major FDW improvements are > > a requirement for this. > > Several people saying that the FDW infrastructure isn't sufficient right > now is pretty far from implying that all of them agree that the FDW API > is the way to go. > > I'm not sure myself. If it works out it's going to save us some work and > make it more realistic to get there sometime not too far off. But I'm > afraid that the resulting system will feel like our current partitioning > implemenentation. Yes, it kinda works, but it's hard to get started, it > doesn't support too many features and you're kind afraid your relatives > will see what you've done.
Whatever we decide on, we can only count on built-in multi-node being adopted if all the needed bits needed ship with every PostgreSQL installation. If we require people do Install More Software™ in order to get a feature, we're going to lose a majority of our potential base. If it turns out we need the PostgreSQL FDW, and I believe some consensus is starting to gel around that, I can see not installing it in template1 by default. Even that's a questionable decision, as merely having the software in place does not credibly increase the attack surface, and does up the installation procedures by a fallible step. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
