Thank you, Merlin and Asko for your responses :-) Because my whole project is using PL/Proxy I should have realised I could use that instead of dblink in this case.
Take a stab at plproxy if you want to remotly call functions. Should be much better suited than dblink for that.
Regards Asko
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
On 1/24/09, Ian Sollars <ian.sollars@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I've got some questions about dblink that I couldn't find answers to in the > documentation. Any help would be much appreciated. > > I need to invoke a function on a remote server that returns either void or > text, and I'm trying to find a nice way of doing it. >
did you try this? perform * from dblink('test', 'select inserttest()') as t1(test text);
Anyways, I never write void returning functions. Another problem with them (for example) is that they can't be called using the binary query protocol. These are minor nits since the workaround is easy.
