Re: postgre linkage with non-postgre db - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Michael Fuhr
Subject Re: postgre linkage with non-postgre db
Date
Msg-id 20060712173927.GA21331@winnie.fuhr.org
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In response to postgre linkage with non-postgre db  ("Petronenko D.S." <petronenko@gmail.com>)
Responses The name of the game (was Re: postgre linkage with non-postgre db)  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 07:39:05PM +0300, Petronenko D.S. wrote:
> Can i get data in postgre from non-postgre db?

The name is PostgreSQL or Postgres, not postgre.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ.html#item1.1

> For example, can i link mysql db over odbc connection to postgre
> database? So, i will be able to use queries in PG like select * from
> table1, where table1 is from mysql db.

If you have Perl installed then you can do this with dbi-link or
by writing your own PL/PerlU function that uses DBI.  You could
create a view to hide the function call, although a limitation of
doing so is that WHERE restrictions would be applied after fetching
the entire result set, which would be inefficient if you want only
a few rows from a large table.

http://pgfoundry.org/projects/dbi-link/

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Michael Fuhr

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