Re: How to access a second database

On 10/31/2017 12:15 AM, Sherman Willden wrote:
> I am trying to access a table from another database. I have the
> permissions to create under my own login. I have performed the
> following so far:
> sherman(at)sql-dev: createdb sandbox01
> sherman(at)sql-dev:~$ createdb sandbox02.
> After logging into sandbox02 I performed the following: sandbox02=#
> CREATE TABLE last_names(last_name TEXT);
> sandbox02=# INSERT INTO last_names VALUES(willden);
>
> Now I think I want to use a foreign key in sandbox01. Is the following
> how it works after logging into sandbox01?
>
> sandbox01=# CREATE TABLE first_and_last(first_name TEXT, last_name
> FOREIGN KEY last_name REFERENCES sandbox02(last_names(last_name))
>
> and then sandbox01=# INSERT INTO first_and_last(sherman, willden);

if you're doing a lot of this, why not use two schema in the same
database?      then its just ...schema.table...

otherwise, you need to use FDW and foreign tables.

see....
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/postgres-fdw.html

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