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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition
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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition

by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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How it works…

Our query has a WHERE condition that filters the rows we select from the foreign table. As in the postgres_fdw example from the previous recipe, Foreign Data Wrappers do the clever thing: the WHERE condition is pushed to the remote server, and only the matching rows are retrieved.

This is good in two ways: firstly, we delegate some work to another system, and secondly, we reduce the overall network traffic by not transferring unnecessary data.

We also notice that the WHERE condition is expressed in the PostgreSQL syntax; the Foreign Data Wrapper is able to translate it into whatever form required by the remote system.

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