Re: Are we losing momentum?

On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 18:43, Rob Butler wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> New to the Hackers list, but long time lurker on the archives. Also a member of the Postgres-r list. Just thought I would join in now to give my opinions on this thread.
>
> > One of the features that PostgreSql must have, IMHO, is support for
> > cross-db operations (queries, updates, deletes, inserts). 2PC and
> > cross-server stuff would be nice but it's not as important as simple
> > cross -db operations across databases on the same server. All major
> > comercial RDBMS (and even mySql!) support this but for Postgres. Sad.
>
> I disagree, The cross-db operations would indeed be very nice to
> have, but you COULD make things work across DB's from within your
> application code if Postgres supported 2PC. Granted this would not be
> the best, but it could be done.

In any case, we effectively have the equivalent of MySQL's
cross-database access in schemas, which MySQL does not have. So rather
than treating it as a problem we should just advertise it as a
terminological difference.

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