Re: is possible to read Oracle table from PostgreSQL?

From: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
To: markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com
Cc: marko78(at)libero(dot)it, pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: is possible to read Oracle table from PostgreSQL?
Date: 2003-10-16 17:41:51
Message-ID: 3F8ED85F.7010604@joeconway.com
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markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com wrote:
>>I need to know if is possible to read oracle tables from PostgresSQL.
>>Can someone give me some help?
>
>
> It is theoretically possible, but depending on your skill level, possible
> but difficult.
>
> Starting with the latest versions of PostgreSQL, it is possible to return
> multi-column result sets. All one would need to do is construct a
> PostgreSQL extension that would query the Oracle database and return the
> result set.

Hans-Jürgen Schönig modified contrib/dblink to do this. See:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2003-06/msg00361.php

HTH,

Joe

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