On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 12:19 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Is there a better way to handle all this? It may be too late to rethink
> dblink's behavior anyhow, but perhaps it's not too late to change
> postgres_fdw. I think though that once we let 9.3 out the door, it
> *will* be too late to make any major changes, because postgres_fdw's
> usage is going to go through the roof now that it can do remote updates.
The first thing that occurs to me is to have postgres_fdw install some
GUCs with reasonable defaults.
Perhaps the default could be a magic value that is replaced by the
current user or something (similar to search_path).
Regards,Jeff Davis