More foreign table documentation improvements.
Shigeru Hanada, with some additional wordsmithing by me
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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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are not needed, you should insert nulls in those column positions.
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</para>
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<para>
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Note that <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>'s executor doesn't care
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whether the rows returned violate the <literal>NOT NULL</literal>
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constraints which were defined on the foreign table columns - but the
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planner does care, and may optimize queries incorrectly if
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<literal>NULL</> values are present in a column declared not to contain
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them. If a <literal>NULL</> value is encountered when the user has
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declared that none should be present, it may be appropriate to raise an
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error (just as you would need to do in the case of a data type mismatch).
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</para>
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<para>
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<programlisting>
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void
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