Re: RULES on SELECT with JDBC/perlDBI from other RDBMS products?

From: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
To: dave(dot)bath(at)unix(dot)net
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: RULES on SELECT with JDBC/perlDBI from other RDBMS products?
Date: 2005-10-07 07:31:40
Message-ID: 4346245C.2040107@archonet.com
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Bath, David wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I'm looking at using pg to be the main platform for integrating info
> from other RDBMS products (particularly Oracle) as pg seems to be
> the most flexible RDBMS around.
>
> Disregarding writing to foreign products, query-plan efficiencies,
> or differences of SQL dialect, I'd like to have a way of setting
> up a fairly-transparent SELECT within pg that pulls rows from the
> other product. I wonder if anyone has attempted something like
> this, and can recommend (or even deprecate) an approach, and perhaps
> point to a code template.

Are you familiar with the dblink() module in the contrib/ directory of
the source distribution?

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd

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