Understanding Foreign Data Wrappers in Postgres and Postgres_fdw

Re:Understanding Foreign Data Wrappers in Postgres and Postg... by agent327 on Thursday August 19, 2021 @05:46AM (#28231989)

Looks neat! Is there a list of those 200+ data sources somewhere? Is there one for the Steam database?

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Re:Understanding Foreign Data Wrappers in Postgres and Postg... by vforvendettador on Thursday August 19, 2021 @06:51AM (#28232320)

There is this concept of "Plugins" that will tell you where you can pull the data from: https://hub.steampipe.io/plugins

And no, there isn't one for Steam.

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Re:Understanding Foreign Data Wrappers in Postgres and Postg... by agent327 on Thursday August 19, 2021 @09:09AM (#28233366)

I noticed that, but it lists only 37 plugins, not 200+, as advertized here: https://steampipe.io/ I figured the remaining 163+ might be built in, instead of being supplied as plugins.

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Re:Understanding Foreign Data Wrappers in Postgres and Postg... by nathanwallace on Thursday August 19, 2021 @10:48AM (#28234512)

It's a pure plugin model, none built in. On the home page we considered data source ~= API ~= table, sorry if that was not clear.

I expanded more on this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28229700.

Having said that, we find plugins are quick and fun to write so we'd love contributions or suggestions for any that would bring you value!

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