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Foreign Data Wrapper for Postgres Dump Files
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Abandoned project? #4

Open nboullis opened 1 year ago

nboullis commented 1 year ago

Hi,

As far as I can see, this project hasn’t been updated for 8 years and it looks like the two issues that where opened in 2015 haven’t been investigated much. I just checked and, as one could expect, it fails to build against PostgreSQL 13. However, as far as I can see, it would look like a nice feature to have to be able to query a pg_dumped database through this foreign data wrapper. Is there a reason why this project was abandoned? Note that it is still referenced in https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Foreign_data_wrappers.

jonahharris commented 8 months ago

Hey @nboullis - this was abandoned mainly because I was the only person working on it, and I ended up switching roles and not having the time. It was developed for a specific use case, which it worked fine for. That didn't account for corner cases at all, which I expected people to run into and, hopefully, send a PR to fix. Nowadays, however, it would be pretty easy to write a newer one that uses pgdumplib via multicorn.