Re: connections between servers

From: Shane Ambler <pgsql(at)Sheeky(dot)Biz>
To: Marcin Krawczyk <jankes(dot)mk(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: connections between servers
Date: 2008-04-03 17:35:31
Message-ID: 47F51563.9060108@Sheeky.Biz
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Marcin Krawczyk wrote:
> Hi all. I was wondering if it's possible for a trigger to perform operations
> on a database on different server? I saw somewhere that there's a piece of
> software that allows conneciotns between different databases, but what about
> different servers? I also thought about using perl, would it be possible to
> connect to different server from within perl trigger?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> regards
> mk
>
Yes it is possible. A PL/Perl trigger is one option you have.

dblink (in contrib) and dbi-link, dblink-tds, oralink and odbclink are
other options at pgfoundry.org depending on your needs.

There was a recent discussion in the general mailing list about this.

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2008-03/msg01343.php

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Shane Ambler
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