Re: [GENERAL] One SQL to access two databases.

From: "Shridhar Daithankar" <shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in>
To: hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] One SQL to access two databases.
Date: 2002-12-02 11:28:52
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On 2 Dec 2002 at 12:05, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 01:11:20PM -0800, Joe Conway wrote:
> > As I said, this is all very preliminary; comments, suggestions, requests
> > are all welcome.
> Only idea/dream: what implement dblink as "virtual" schema.
> CREATE SCHEMA myschema AS DBLINK TO ... some connection options ...;
> SELECT * FROM myschema.tabname;
> This solution allows use dblink as really transparent.

Well, that is an excellent solution but I want to suggest a further
modification..

How would you select from a table in certain schema in remote database? i.e.
does current implementation supports nested schemas?

Like select * from remotedb.schemaa.tablea will work?

If it does, this might be the best transparency we could ever get..

Bye
Shridhar

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