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> The problem was that we were trying to retrofit [the Foreign Data Wrapper] API for something that it was fundamentally not designed to do. > The PostgreSQL E
by rch 11y ago
> The problem was that we were trying to retrofit [the Foreign Data Wrapper] API for something that it was fundamentally not designed to do.
> The PostgreSQL Extension APIs ... enable you to extend, cooperate with, or override any database submodule's behavior. We could therefore change our design to use the planner and executor hook APIs, and we found that things followed nicely from there.
- tinco 11y agoUnfortunately this comment is really a good summary of the article. I guess it makes marketing sense to cut up big blog posts into two, but as it is the article really is vapid, while it could easily have been the article that makes me consider CitusDB over MongoDB for a particular application.
- rch 11y agoTo be fair, the details of why statement one is true are still interesting though.