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More foreign table documentation improvements.

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Shigeru Hanada, with some additional wordsmithing by me
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Robert Haas
2011-06-13 08:28:41 -04:00
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<firstterm>foreign data wrapper</firstterm>. A foreign data wrapper is a
library that can communicate with an external data source, hiding the
details of connecting to the data source and fetching data from it. There
are several foreign data wrappers available, which can for example read
plain data files residing on the server, or connect to another PostgreSQL
instance. If none of the existing foreign data wrappers suit your needs,
you can write your own; see <xref linkend="fdwhandler">.
is a foreign data wrapper available as a <file>contrib</file> module,
which can read plain data files residing on the server. Other kind of
foreign data wrappers might be found as third party products. If none of
the existing foreign data wrappers suit your needs, you can write your
own; see <xref linkend="fdwhandler">.
</para>
<para>