Re: [JDBC] How to just "link" to some data feed

Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Albretch Mueller
> <lbrtchx(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Oliver Jowett
> <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com> wrote:
> >> That's essentially the same as the COPY you quoted in your
> original email,
> >> isn't it? So.. what exactly is it you want to do that COPY
> doesn't do?
> > ~
> > well, actually, not exactly; based on:
> > ~
> > http://postgresql.com.cn/docs/8.3/static/sql-copy.html
> > ~
> > COPY <table_name> [FROM|TO] <data_feed> <OPTIONS>
> > ~
> > import/export the data into/out of PG, so you will be essentially
> > duplicating the data and having to synch it. This is
> exactly what I am
> > trying to avoid, I would like for PG to handle the data
> right from the
> > data feed
>
> I think what you're looking for is the equivalent to oracles external
> tables which invoke sqlldr every time you access them in the
> background. No such animal in the pg universe that I know of.

There was a similar discussion of this on -hackers in April. Closest to this idea was
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg00250.php

Regards,
Stephen Denne.
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