All,
I'm in the process of moving to PostGres from iAnywhere's SQL Anywhere v 10. One of the neat features from ASA 10 is the ability to create "proxy tables" These tables can be local or remote. The purpose of a proxy table is that once create it can be used just like any other table or view. You can use it in joins, subselects, etc. ASA sees it as just a normal table. The data can be stored in any ODBC compatible file system so it makes it easy to interact with all other database. The synatx is pretty simple :
CREATE EXISTING TABLE [owner.]table-name
[ (column-definition, ...) ]
AT location-string
column-definition :
column-name data-type [NOT NULL]
location-string :
remote-server-name.[db-name].[owner].object-name
| remote-server-name;[db-name];[owner];object-name
example:
CREATE EXISTING TABLE blurbs
( author_id ID not null,
copy text not null)
AT 'server_a.db1.joe.blurbs';
Now you can acces blurbs just like any table.
Best Regards,
Michael Gould
All Coast Intermodal Services Inc.