Re: Arguments to foreign tables?

On Tue, 2012-11-06 at 10:55 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> I'd also opine that the FDW APIs are pretty darn heavyweight for an SRF.
> There might be a small number of SRFs for which it's actually worth
> dealing with the planner in full generality, but surely not very many.

I was not suggesting that we remove the user-facing simplicity of SRFs.

Granted, this is not very well thought-through from an API standpoint.
But I was imagining adding something to the FDW API that allows for
arguments to be passed from the FROM clause down the the FDW code.

Regards,Jeff Davis