Almost all functions provided by this extension are PARALLEL
RESTRICTED. Mostly, that's because the leader's TCP connections won't
be shared with the workers, but in some cases like dblink_get_pkey
it's because they obtain locks which might be released early if taken
within a parallel worker. dblink_fdw_validator probably can't be used
in a query anyway, but there would be no problem from the point of
view of parallel query if it were, so it's PARALLEL SAFE.
Andreas Karlsson
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
This isn't fully tested as yet, in particular I'm not sure that the
"foo--unpackaged--1.0.sql" scripts are OK. But it's time to get some
buildfarm cycles on it.
sepgsql is not converted to an extension, mainly because it seems to
require a very nonstandard installation process.
Dimitri Fontaine and Tom Lane
Robert Haas
Tom Lane