Re: RULES on SELECT with JDBC/perlDBI from other RDBMS products?

Bath, David wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I'm looking at using pg to be the main platform for integrating info
> from other RDBMS products (particularly Oracle) as pg seems to be
> the most flexible RDBMS around.
> 
> Disregarding writing to foreign products, query-plan efficiencies,
> or differences of SQL dialect, I'd like to have a way of setting
> up a fairly-transparent SELECT within pg that pulls rows from the
> other product.  I wonder if anyone has attempted something like
> this, and can recommend (or even deprecate) an approach, and perhaps
> point to a code template.

Are you familiar with the dblink() module in the contrib/ directory of 
the source distribution?

--   Richard Huxton  Archonet Ltd