Re: Postgres v MySQL 5.0

> > a very handy thing in mysql is FEDERATED tables that allows one to
> > open a channel from one MySQL-server to another
> MySQL-server. Does PG
> > have anything similar?
>
> Yes, and for far more than MySQL covers:
>
> dblink:  /contrib/tablefunc in your PostgreSQL source
> dbi-link: http://pgfoundry.org/projects/dbi-link
>    (note that this allows connecting to *any* tabular data
> source) oracle link: http://pgfoundry.org/projects/oralink
> mssql link: http://pgfoundry.org/projects/dblink-tds/

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dblink-ldap: http://pgfoundry.org/projects/dblink-ldap

//Magnus