Re: Happiness is a cross database link...

Check out dbi-link ... not sure how far into what you are looking for it
is, but from David's description to me today, it sounds like it makes
things transparent to the end user (ie. the 'links' look like extra
schema's within your database) ... haven't played with it yet, just going
by David's '20 sec summary' :)

Oh ... it can be found on http://www.pgfoundry.org ...

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Alex Turner wrote:

> I am trying to find out some information on how to set up a cross
> database links so that I can have queries and foreign keys that cross
> a physical database. This is not just a technical requirement, but a
> legal one (The client requires that we do not co-mingle data). I have
> a new database that has tables and indices named using a new naming
> schema, and an old database that was implemented based on a customer
> requirement that is ugly, and I don't really want to put everything
> into one database (technical reason). I have read that contrib/dblink
> can do this, but I am unable to find any documentation for this
> features, or infact any documentation on what is in the 'contrib'
> pacakge. Can anyone point me to a good place to find contrib docs, or
> and point me to database cross linking stuff. My boss will be really
> pissed if I tell him we need to spend $10k to implement Oracle to have
> a good solution ;)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alex Turner
> NetEconomist
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