Eric Jones wrote:
> We are migrating from Informix to Postgres 7.4.7 and are having a
> difficult time finding if postgres can insert/update tables across
> different databases. Namely using functions/triggers when an
> update/insert is performed on a table it updates/inserts in a table on a
> different database. Informix can do this with no problem but we were
> wondering if there is an easy way for postgres to do this. I've searched
> numerous sites and found vague answers. Thanks in advance.
If you have databases that are dependent on each others data you should
probably move those databases into a new schema within one database...
See the create schema command.
Otherwise you could use dblink but it would not be my suggestion.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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> Eric Jones
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