
This was sent to webmaster@postgresql.org.  Anyone have an answer
to it?  I'm not familiar with oracle so I don't know what he's
talking about.

Vince.



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From: =?iso-8859-1?q?nitin=20thakkar?= <nitinthakkar@yahoo.com>
To: webmaster@postgresql.org
Subject: Query

Hi,

I am PostGRESql user and have a query :

DOES POSTGRESQL SUPPORT DATABASE LINK AS IN ORACLE 8.0

Regards
Nitin


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Wed, 17 Nov 1999 14:07:21 -0500 (EST)
Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>
FW: Query
>
>
> This was sent to webmaster@postgresql.org.  Anyone have an answer
> to it?  I'm not familiar with oracle so I don't know what he's
> talking about.
>
> Vince.
>
>
> I am PostGRESql user and have a query :
>
> DOES POSTGRESQL SUPPORT DATABASE LINK AS IN ORACLE 8.0
>

    AFAIK  it  means  to  show  up  a virtual relation, that is a
    relation in another database. So  if  you  query  your  local
    relation,  your  backend  connects  to the other database and
    virtually shares this relation.

    No, PostgreSQL does not support this.


Jan

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Wed, 17 Nov 1999 20:28:11 +0100 (MET)
wieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck)
Re: [HACKERS] FW: Query