Re: Talking with other Dbases.

Daryl Chance wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm pretty new to PgSQL (been lurking) and am wondering if
> it's possible to talk with other DB's easily? I'm using
> FreeBSD atm and the project I'm working on will be moving
> from dbase to postgres in the next release. It will also
> have a web based side to it that I plan on using MySQL for
> possibly, since all it's going to do is return records.
> (I have yet to do some testing between postgres and mysql
> to determine if pgsql would be sufficient or mysql would
> work better).
>
> Is it possible to write data to other databases? Also
> is it possible to get a secure connection between 2 postgres
> databases, or other databases for that matter? Either through
> ssh or Kerberos(sp?) etc etc.
>
I take it your application is talking to postgresql, and you want
postgresql to write automatically to mysql?

Why not just have the application do both? You won't get the integrity
of transactions, but mysql doesn't give you that anyway... ;-)

Pardon me if I misunderstood what you were trying to do.

> Thanks,
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