Michael Fuhr wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 10:12:00PM +0100, stig erikson wrote:
>> a handy thing in mysql is FEDERATED tables that allows one to open a
>> channel from one MySQL-server to another MySQL-server.
>> it helps a lot when writing stored procedures that transfer data to other
>> servers. you can do the transfer without
>> any extarnal temporary files or external applications that read from one
>> server and insert into another server.
>>
>> Does PG have anything similar?
>
> Not in the stock installation but you can establish a connection
> between one PostgreSQL server and another with contrib/dblink, or
> with just about any other data source using David Fetter's dbi-link.
>
> http://pgfoundry.org/projects/dbi-link/
>
> PostgreSQL has several server-side languages such as PL/Perl,
> PL/Python, PL/Tcl, PL/Ruby, PL/php, PL/Java, PL/R, etc. In general
> a server-side function written in one of those languages can do
> anything a standalone application could do, such as connecting to
> another database, even a different DBMS (you could connect from
> PostgreSQL to MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, etc.).
>
thank you Michel and Ben.
