I wrote a couple months back about exploring FDWs. Its become quite clear to me, despite still having ample room for improvement, they’re not getting enough attention. Foreign data wrappers are perhaps better thought of as a foreign table, or even better yet as a view into some remote data source. They don’t take care of auto-updating or syncing data, thats all up to you, but it gives you a straight forward mapping to work with remote data easier. The first step in working with FDWs is ge...
