2 CREATE FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER
4 CREATE FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER — define a new foreign-data wrapper
8 CREATE FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER name
9 [ HANDLER handler_function | NO HANDLER ]
10 [ VALIDATOR validator_function | NO VALIDATOR ]
11 [ OPTIONS ( option 'value' [, ... ] ) ]
15 CREATE FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER creates a new foreign-data wrapper. The
16 user who defines a foreign-data wrapper becomes its owner.
18 The foreign-data wrapper name must be unique within the database.
20 Only superusers can create foreign-data wrappers.
25 The name of the foreign-data wrapper to be created.
27 HANDLER handler_function
28 handler_function is the name of a previously registered function
29 that will be called to retrieve the execution functions for
30 foreign tables. The handler function must take no arguments, and
31 its return type must be fdw_handler.
33 It is possible to create a foreign-data wrapper with no handler
34 function, but foreign tables using such a wrapper can only be
35 declared, not accessed.
37 VALIDATOR validator_function
38 validator_function is the name of a previously registered
39 function that will be called to check the generic options given
40 to the foreign-data wrapper, as well as options for foreign
41 servers, user mappings and foreign tables using the foreign-data
42 wrapper. If no validator function or NO VALIDATOR is specified,
43 then options will not be checked at creation time. (Foreign-data
44 wrappers will possibly ignore or reject invalid option
45 specifications at run time, depending on the implementation.)
46 The validator function must take two arguments: one of type
47 text[], which will contain the array of options as stored in the
48 system catalogs, and one of type oid, which will be the OID of
49 the system catalog containing the options. The return type is
50 ignored; the function should report invalid options using the
51 ereport(ERROR) function.
53 OPTIONS ( option 'value' [, ... ] )
54 This clause specifies options for the new foreign-data wrapper.
55 The allowed option names and values are specific to each foreign
56 data wrapper and are validated using the foreign-data wrapper's
57 validator function. Option names must be unique.
61 PostgreSQL's foreign-data functionality is still under active
62 development. Optimization of queries is primitive (and mostly left to
63 the wrapper, too). Thus, there is considerable room for future
64 performance improvements.
68 Create a useless foreign-data wrapper dummy:
69 CREATE FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER dummy;
71 Create a foreign-data wrapper file with handler function
73 CREATE FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER file HANDLER file_fdw_handler;
75 Create a foreign-data wrapper mywrapper with some options:
76 CREATE FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER mywrapper
77 OPTIONS (debug 'true');
81 CREATE FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER conforms to ISO/IEC 9075-9 (SQL/MED), with
82 the exception that the HANDLER and VALIDATOR clauses are extensions and
83 the standard clauses LIBRARY and LANGUAGE are not implemented in
86 Note, however, that the SQL/MED functionality as a whole is not yet
91 ALTER FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER, DROP FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER, CREATE SERVER,
92 CREATE USER MAPPING, CREATE FOREIGN TABLE