Store remote authentication details for one local role.

Section: Foreign Data Wrappers and Cross-DB Access

Create user mapping

sql
sql
CREATE USER MAPPING FOR appuser
SERVER analytics_remote
OPTIONS (user 'analytics_user', password 'secret');
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