Working with the supported foreign data wrappers for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL (original) (raw)

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A foreign data wrapper (FDW) is a specific type of extension that provides access to external data. For example, theoracle_fdw extension allows your RDS for PostgreSQL DB cluster to work with Oracle databases.As another example, by using the PostgreSQL nativepostgres_fdw extension you can access data stored in PostgreSQL DB instances external to your RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance.

Following, you can find information about several supported PostgreSQL foreign data wrappers.

Topics

• Using the log_fdw extension to access the DB log using SQL
• Using the postgres_fdw extension to access external data
• Working with MySQL databases by using the mysql_fdw extension
• Working with Oracle databases by using the oracle_fdw extension
• Working with SQL Server databases by using the tds_fdw extension

Document Conventions

Managing spatial data with PostGIS

Using the log_fdw extension

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