Re: DB Links in Postgres?

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Tomeh, Husam" <htomeh(at)firstam(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: DB Links in Postgres?
Date: 2005-11-15 03:23:17
Message-ID: 200511150323.jAF3NH027962@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tomeh, Husam wrote:
> The use of Dblink would be very helpful in our application. From my
> research so far, I found that PostgreSQL does not support DB links.
> Could you confirm? And if true, is that something on the todo list.
> Also, how stable is the code in the contrib/ to use in production
> environments. Is code in contrib stable and matured? And what makes
> certain code candidate to be in contrib? (The reason I'm asking is that
> I found that there's dblink code in contrib/dblink)..

dblink is the only way we currently have to do cross-database queries.
/contrib is as good as the main code in many cases. Of course, _good_
is a relative term. :-)

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