Re: Doing an LDAP lookup from a SQL SELECT

Thanks, I found the extension but no documentation on how to install it
or use it. Can you give me some pointers? TNX David

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> David R Robison wrote:
>
>> I have an LDAP directory that contains contact information and a
>> PostgreSQL table that has contact names. What I want to do is write a
>> SELECT that will join the names in the table with the data in the LDAP
>> directory (such as phone number, e-mail address, etc). Is this possible?
>> Has anyone done this before?
>>
>
> Take a look at dblink-ldap, available on pgFoundry. It's not exactly
> polished :-), but it works for a lot of cases. I've used it for doing
> exactly what you're trying to do here.
>
> //Magnus
>
>
>

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