Re: Cross-database queries

On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Andy Hallam wrote:

> I am porting our applications from SQL SERVER, ORACLE and DB2 to PostgreSQL.
>
> I have just read that PostgreSQL does NOT support cross-database queries.

Nope, it doesn't. However, you can simulate this in your client
application by having two database connections open and making two queries
and then processing both sets of data.

There was talk about having schema support in PostgreSQL at time. In
fact, I think it is listed as 'Urgent' in the TODO list as part of the
replication support

(http://postgresql.cokernet.com/docs/todo.html)

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