Re: dblink vs dbi-link (and errors compiling) - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ow Mun Heng
Subject Re: dblink vs dbi-link (and errors compiling)
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Msg-id 1189155509.13896.6.camel@neuromancer.home.net
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In response to Re: dblink vs dbi-link (and errors compiling)  ("Albe Laurenz" <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at>)
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On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 10:16 +0200, Albe Laurenz wrote:
> Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> True, you'll have to write some stuff that does something like:
> - pull the data over from the other database
> - replace the data in the local table

Already doing that currently for some data tables/

> Since it is between PostgreSQL databases,
actually, it'll be against SQL Servers

>  preserves less of the PostgreSQL-ness
> of the data - e.g. data type is lost, all data arrive as text.

Another thing I didn't know.. thanks again for this heads up..


> The correct way is like this:
> cd into the PostgreSQL source directory
> ./configure with the correct arguments
> make -C src/backend ../../src/include/utils/fmgroids.h
> make -C contrib/dblink

Cool. I'll give it a shot//

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