Re: PostgreSQL 11 Press Release Feedback

"Jonathan S. Katz" <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Aug 2018 13:26:32 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.db.postgresql.advocacy
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

> On Aug 23, 2018, at 12:43 AM, Amit Langote <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 2018/08/23 13:09, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
>>> On Aug 22, 2018, at 9:12 PM, Amit Langote <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Below is a copy of the press release draft:
>>> 
>>> About the following:
>>> 
>>> "PostgreSQL 11 also supports partitioned tables that utilize the
>>> PostgreSQL foreign data wrapper,
>>> [postgres_fdw](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/postgres-fdw.html <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/postgres-fdw.html>),
>>> enabling users to combine partitioning with data federation techniques."
>>> 
>>> Just to clarify, we support partitioned tables containing partitions that
>>> utilize FDWs even in PostgreSQL 10 [1].  Although, they were not handled
>>> by tuple routing, so offered limited functionality as partitions.
>>> PostgreSQL 11 fixed that limitation, which makes them more useful.
>> 
>> Thanks for the clarification! Would something like “PostgreSQL 11 _provides better
>> support for_…” work better?
> 
> Maybe, "PostgreSQL 11 enhances the foreign partition functionality offered
> via its PostgreSQL foreign data wrapper [postgres_fdw] …"?

Thanks for the suggestion. I pushed some changes taking ideas from the
above.

Jonathan

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