Postgres OnLine Journal - www_fdw

FDWS for PostgreSQL Windows 32 and 64-bit

nospam@example.com (Leo Hsu and Regina Obe) — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 00:25:00 -0500

We've updated our binaries for PostgreSQL 10 windows, both 32 and 64-bit. The 64-bit should work fine with EnterpriseDb windows as well as BigSQL.

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PostGIS 2.2 Windows users hold off on installing latest PostgreSQL patch release

nospam@example.com (Leo Hsu and Regina Obe) — Sat, 02 Apr 2016 11:34:00 -0400

Someone reported recently on PostGIS mailing list, that they were unable to install PostGIS 2.2.1 bundle or PostGIS 2.2.2 binaries on a clean PostgreSQL 9.5.2 install. Someone also complained about PostgreSQL 9.3 (though not clear the version) if that is a separate issue or the same. I have tested on PostgreSQL 9.5.2 Windows 64-bit and confirmed the issue. The issue does not affect PostgreSQL 9.5.1 and older. I haven't confirmed its an issue with the 32-bit installs, but I suspect so too. This issue will affect OGR_FDW users and people who used our compiled WWW_FDW.

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Foreign Data Wrappers for PostgreSQL 9.5 and 9.6 windows

nospam@example.com (Leo Hsu and Regina Obe) — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 03:49:00 -0500

FDW binaries for PostgreSQL 9.5 windows 64-bit/32-bit

As you may have noticed we've been building our favorite extensions which we'll use in our PostgreSQL 9.5 installs. Next on our list are the FDWS

Below are the zip files that contain the binaries and dependency files for our favorite FDWs (that aren't normally available for windows)

These packages contain www_fdw and file_textarray_fdw

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Using SSL https connections with www_fdw on windows

nospam@example.com (Leo Hsu and Regina Obe) — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 13:35:00 -0500

One of the foreign data wrappers I included in the PostgreSQL 9.3 Windows FDW bag and PostgreSQL 9.4 Windows FDW bag is the www_fdw extension used for querying web services. Someone asked that since I didn't build curl with SSL support, they are unable to use it with https connections. The main reason I didn't is that the EDB installs come with ssleay32.dll and libeay32.dll (even the 64-bit) which are dependencies of curl when built with SSL support. I wanted to minimize the issue of distributing dlls that are packaged with Windows PostgreSQL installers already.

Though this article is specific to using www_fdw on Windows systems, many of the issues are equally applicable to other platforms, so may be worth a read if you are running into similar issues with using specialty SSL certificates on Linux/Unix/Mac.

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Updated Foreign Data Wrappers for PostgreSQL 9.3 Windows

nospam@example.com (Leo Hsu and Regina Obe) — Sat, 03 Jan 2015 17:05:00 -0500

As stated in last article, I've packaged FDW binaries for PostgreSQL 9.3 windows 32-bit and 64-bit and added in the ogr_fdw one. These we've tested with the standard EDB Vc++ built PostgreSQL windows installs and work fine with those.

This package is an updated list from ones we've distributed before that includes ogr_fdw and recompiled with latests source from www_fdw and file_textarray

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