Since v9.1 PostgreSQL is steadily improving its Foreign Data Wrapper (FDW in short) capabilities. FDWs are a way to access and manipulate data external to PostgreSQL from a PostgreSQL server. The technology is based on SQL/MED standard, which represents foreign data in the form of relational table called foreign tables. Starting with v10, PostgreSQL will support declarative partitioning, similar to the partitioning support in many popular DBMSes. What’s more interesting is that these partit...
