PGCon2014 - Final Release

PGCon 2014
The PostgreSQL Conference

Speakers
Ronan Dunklau
Schedule
Day Talks - Day 1 - Thu May 22 - 2014-05-22
Room Morisset 256
Start time 11:00
Duration 00:45
Info
ID 655
Event type Lecture
Track Hacking
Language used for presentation English

Multicorn: writing FDWs in Python

A tutorial showing off Multicorn's features

Multicorn is a generic Foreign Data Wrapper which goal is to simplify development of FDWs by writing them in Python.

We will see:

what is an FDW
what Multicorn is trying to solve
how to use it, with a brief tour of the FDWs shipping with Multicorn.
how to write your own FDW in python, including the new 9.3 write API
the internals: what Multicorn is doing for you behind the scenes, and what it doesn't

After a presentation of FDWs in general, and what the Multicorn extension really is, we will take a look at some of the FDWs bundled with Multicorn.

Then, a complete tour of the Multicorn API will teach you how to write a FDW in python, including the following features:

  • using the table definition
  • WHERE clauses push-down
  • output columns restrictions
  • influencing the planner
  • writing to a foreign table
  • transaction management

This will be a hands-on explanation, with code snippets allowing you to build your own FDW in python from scratch.

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