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dblink now has its own validator function dblink_fdw_validator(), which is better than the core function postgresql_fdw_validator() because it gets the list of legal options from libpq instead of having a hard-wired list. Make the dblink extension module provide a standard foreign data wrapper dblink_fdw that encapsulates use of this validator, and recommend use of that wrapper instead of making up wrappers on the fly. Unfortunately, because ad-hoc wrappers *were* recommended practice previously, it's not clear when we can get rid of postgresql_fdw_validator without causing upgrade problems. But this is a step in the right direction. Shigeru Hanada, reviewed by KaiGai Kohei
The PostgreSQL contrib tree
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This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in
features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly
because they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be
part of the main source tree. This does not preclude their
usefulness.
User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML
documentation.
When building from the source distribution, these modules are not
built automatically, unless you build the "world" target. You can
also build and install them all by running "gmake all" and "gmake
install" in this directory; or to build and install just one selected
module, do the same in that module's subdirectory.
Some directories supply new user-defined functions, operators, or
types. To make use of one of these modules, after you have installed
the code you need to register the new SQL objects in the database
system by executing a CREATE EXTENSION command. In a fresh database,
you can simply do
CREATE EXTENSION module_name;
See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.