Bear Giles

I should have something soon. I don't know *what* - but as several people have pointed out to me recently "some progress is better than no progress" (when seen from...

This is one reason for the steps I mentioned - it provides a way to explore that question before committing to a full implementation. Loading and unloading the FDW's JVM...

After that essay... I should be clear that my current focus is much more limited. Think "FileFDW" but with two extensions: - it can perform arbitrary manipulation of the data...

The more I think about it the more I'm convinced that there's *some* way to get the session at the appropriate time, e.g., when the scan is initialized. It's just...

Two things finally occurred to me at the same time. First, there's no reason the first FDW needs to be able to interact with java. We can start with something...

A quick update.... I feel a bit like that Bugs Bunny cartoon set in opposing forts where Yosemite Sam keeps opening a door to find another door behind hit, while...

Ah, the eternal question of whether you do top-down or bottom-up.... I've focused on bottom-up since there's an existing API - it shouldn't drive the final interface but it should...

I forgot to add - here's the work-to-date: https://github.com/coyotesong/simple_fdw

And I just created a pull request that shows the pljava side of this. There's a lot of handwaving since this is a lot like the existing UDT in some...

I just created a second pull request with much more serious effort to prototype working code. It works with a clean java implementation of the required tasks - there is...