Fw: Talking with other Dbases.

oops...meant to send to list.
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| Daryl Chance   | I have made this letter longer then |
| Valuedata, LLC | usual because I lacked the time to  |
| Memphis, TN    | make it shorter.   -- Blaise Pascal |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Daryl Chance" <dchance@valuedata.net>
To: "Mitch Vincent" <mitch@venux.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Talking with other Dbases.


> > If you're talking about connecting to another RDBMSs from within
> PostgreSQL
> > I suppose it would be possible with custom written functions (since most
> > RDBMSs have a C API) but it being easy depends on your level of
experience
> > with C (and the two database APIs)..
>
> what about the ODBC for *nix, or is there one (think i remember seeing
> something about it).
>
> > You can tunnel virtually anything through SSH, sure.
> >
> > I know MySQL is fast but just remember, it's just "A filesystem with an
> SQL
> > interface" -- that's ALL... :-)
>
> Cool, thats what I needed to know.  as for MySQL, thats about all I really
> need :P.
>
> Thanks,
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> | Daryl Chance   | I have made this letter longer then |
> | Valuedata, LLC | usual because I lacked the time to  |
> | Memphis, TN    | make it shorter.   -- Blaise Pascal |
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