Re: External Tabular Data Via SQL

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Subject: Re: External Tabular Data Via SQL
Date: 2004-10-04 17:17:49
Message-ID: 416185BD.3070405@dunslane.net
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Josh Berkus wrote:

>David,
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>>Please find enclosed an example of what I hope to make into a
>>generalized way of accessing external tabular data via SQL.
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>This is very cool, and I look forward to playing with it.
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>However,it seems to me that pgFoundry is the place for it and not /contrib.
>We're really trying not to add new projects to contrib unless they're likely
>to get merged with the man code in a couple of versions. Further, it's got a
>major external dependency.
>
>Besides, other perl hackers are more likely to play with it if it's somewhere
>more accessable.
>
>

Of course, if we had a nice code snippets feature working on pgfoundry
that might be an ideal place for it ..... (That's a *big* *hint* BTW)

cheers

andrew

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