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<firstterm>foreign data wrapper</firstterm>. A foreign data wrapper is a |
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library that can communicate with an external data source, hiding the |
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details of connecting to the data source and fetching data from it. There |
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are several foreign data wrappers available, which can for example read |
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plain data files residing on the server, or connect to another PostgreSQL |
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instance. If none of the existing foreign data wrappers suit your needs, |
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you can write your own; see <xref linkend="fdwhandler">. |
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is a foreign data wrapper available as a <file>contrib</file> module, |
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which can read plain data files residing on the server. Other kind of |
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foreign data wrappers might be found as third party products. If none of |
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the existing foreign data wrappers suit your needs, you can write your |
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own; see <xref linkend="fdwhandler">. |
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</para> |
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<para> |
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