On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 16:37, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Shigeru Hanada <shigeru.hanada@gmail.com> writes:
>> (2011/10/25 19:15), Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>> I have not looked at the code itself, but I wonder if we shouldn't
>>> consider making this a part of core-proper, not just a contrib module.
>>> The fact that it isn't *already* available in core surprises a lot of
>>> people...
>
>> Do you mean that pgsql_fdw should be a built-in extension like plpgsql
>> so that it's available just after initdb?
>
> If that was what he meant, I'd vote against it. There are way too many
> people who will *not* want their databases configured to be able to
> reach out onto the net. This feature should be something that has to be
> installed by explicit user action.
That is not what I meant.
I meant installed the shared library by defualt, but still require
CREATE EXTENSION.
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