| From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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| To: | Gregory Williamson <Gregory(dot)Williamson(at)digitalglobe(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Chad(dot)Hendren(at)Sun(dot)COM, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: PostgresSQL vs. Informix |
| Date: | 2007-11-29 18:45:39 |
| Message-ID: | 20071129184539.GE27157@fetter.org |
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On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 11:11:07PM -0700, Gregory Williamson wrote:
> * There is no equivalent of a "synonym"; a view can be used to fake this sometimes
> but where Informix lets you create a synonym to a table in another database /
> instance, PostgreSQL doesn't. dblink can be used to poke a hole to other
> databases though, including non-postgres ones.
dblink, a contrib module, is only for Postgres databases. There are
several other options including dblink-tds and DBI-Link on pgfoundry
which let you connect to other kinds of data store.
Cheers,
David.
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