Re: Postgres v MySQL 5.0

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
To: "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Postgres v MySQL 5.0
Date: 2006-11-09 09:34:22
Message-ID: 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCEA358C4@algol.sollentuna.se
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> > a very handy thing in mysql is FEDERATED tables that allows one to
> > open a channel from one MySQL-server to another
> MySQL-server. Does PG
> > have anything similar?
>
> Yes, and for far more than MySQL covers:
>
> dblink: /contrib/tablefunc in your PostgreSQL source
> dbi-link: http://pgfoundry.org/projects/dbi-link
> (note that this allows connecting to *any* tabular data
> source) oracle link: http://pgfoundry.org/projects/oralink
> mssql link: http://pgfoundry.org/projects/dblink-tds/

<shameless plub>
dblink-ldap: http://pgfoundry.org/projects/dblink-ldap

//Magnus

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