Joe Conway wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 08:37:16AM -0400, Ted Taylor wrote:
> >
> >>I'd like to set up a pgsql database that has server-based links back to
> >>an Oracle db. Not replication, but a live link (the data I'm looking
> >>for can change rapidly). The pgsql client would see it as a native
> >>pgsql table, but the pgsql server would submit the query to Oracle in
> >>real-time. Basically, a view of the Oracle data.
> >
> > There is a dblink in in the postgres source that does this between seperate
> > postgres servers. Perhaps just altering this to deal if oracle servers
> > instead would be possible?
>
> Someone has already modified dblink to use JDBC successfully. He sent me
> the code, but did not announce anything because he really didn't have
> time to support it.
>
> I'm hoping to have enough time to integrate the jdbclink code into
> dblink before the freeze for 7.4, but no promises.
Wow, I can see that having amazing possibilities, which dblink has lots
of already!
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