From 10323f3a592922bce75bc5c38589f0f3427ef232 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Lane Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 15:54:00 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Restructure foreign data wrapper chapter so it has more than one section. As noted by Laurenz Albe, our SGML tools deal rather oddly with chapters having just one . Perhaps the tooling could be fixed, but really the design of this chapter's introduction is pretty bogus anyhow. Split it into a true introduction and a about the FDW functions, so that it reads better and dodges the lack-of-a-chapter-TOC problem. --- doc/src/sgml/fdwhandler.sgml | 83 +++++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/fdwhandler.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/fdwhandler.sgml index 0637de7d1f..9ab712f6d1 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/fdwhandler.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/fdwhandler.sgml @@ -17,43 +17,6 @@ to write a new foreign data wrapper. - - The FDW author needs to implement a handler function, and optionally - a validator function. Both functions must be written in a compiled - language such as C, using the version-1 interface. - For details on C language calling conventions and dynamic loading, - see . - - - - The handler function simply returns a struct of function pointers to - callback functions that will be called by the planner and executor. - Most of the effort in writing an FDW is in implementing these callback - functions. - The handler function must be registered with - PostgreSQL as taking no arguments and returning - the special pseudo-type fdw_handler. - The callback functions are plain C functions and are not visible or - callable at the SQL level. - - - - The validator function is responsible for validating options given in - CREATE and ALTER commands for its - foreign data wrapper, as well as foreign servers, user mappings, and - foreign tables using the wrapper. - The validator function must be registered as taking two arguments, a text - array containing the options to be validated, and an OID representing the - type of object the options are associated with (in the form of the OID - of the system catalog the object would be stored in, either - ForeignDataWrapperRelationId, - ForeignServerRelationId, - UserMappingRelationId, - or ForeignTableRelationId). - If no validator function is supplied, options are not checked at object - creation time or object alteration time. - - The foreign data wrappers included in the standard distribution are good references when trying to write your own. Look into the @@ -71,7 +34,51 @@ - + + Foreign Data Wrapper Functions + + + The FDW author needs to implement a handler function, and optionally + a validator function. Both functions must be written in a compiled + language such as C, using the version-1 interface. + For details on C language calling conventions and dynamic loading, + see . + + + + The handler function simply returns a struct of function pointers to + callback functions that will be called by the planner and executor. + Most of the effort in writing an FDW is in implementing these callback + functions. + The handler function must be registered with + PostgreSQL as taking no arguments and + returning the special pseudo-type fdw_handler. The + callback functions are plain C functions and are not visible or + callable at the SQL level. The callback functions are described in + . + + + + The validator function is responsible for validating options given in + CREATE and ALTER commands for its + foreign data wrapper, as well as foreign servers, user mappings, and + foreign tables using the wrapper. + The validator function must be registered as taking two arguments, a + text array containing the options to be validated, and an OID + representing the type of object the options are associated with (in + the form of the OID of the system catalog the object would be stored + in, either + ForeignDataWrapperRelationId, + ForeignServerRelationId, + UserMappingRelationId, + or ForeignTableRelationId). + If no validator function is supplied, options are not checked at object + creation time or object alteration time. + + + + + Foreign Data Wrapper Callback Routines -- 2.40.0