Craig Kerstiens • 8/5/2013

A look at Foreign Data Wrappers

This technical article provides a guide to PostgreSQL's Foreign Data Wrappers (FDWs), focusing on the postgres_fdw extension. It covers the motivation for FDWs, the basic setup process including creating a remote server, user mapping, and foreign tables, and demonstrates how to query and join data across disparate systems from within PostgreSQL.

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