Re: DB Links in Postgres? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: DB Links in Postgres?
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Msg-id 200511150323.jAF3NH027962@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to DB Links in Postgres?  ("Tomeh, Husam" <htomeh@firstam.com>)
Responses Re: DB Links in Postgres?  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Tomeh, Husam wrote:
> The use of Dblink would be very helpful in our application. From my
> research so far, I found that PostgreSQL does not support DB links.
> Could you confirm? And if true, is that something on the todo list.
> Also, how stable is the code in the contrib/ to use in production
> environments. Is code in contrib stable and matured? And what makes
> certain code candidate to be in contrib? (The reason I'm asking is that
> I found that there's dblink code in contrib/dblink)..

dblink is the only way we currently have to do cross-database queries.
/contrib is as good as the main code in many cases.  Of course, _good_
is a relative term.  :-)

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