On Jul 18, 2007, at 11:30 AM, Michael Dengler wrote:
> Hmm..I was hoping to avoid personal insults....
>
> Anyway, Nuts or not...what I am attempting is to simply have row
> from one table inserted into another servers DB I don't see it as
> replication because:
>
> a) The destination table will have a trigger that modifies the
> arriving data to fit its table scheme.
> b) It is not critical that the data be synchronous (ie a lost row
> on the destination DB is not a big deal)
> c) I see as more of a provision of data to the destination DB NOT A
> REPLICATION OF DATA.
>
> Essentially the remote server just wants to know when some record
> arrives at the source server and wants to know some of the info
> contained in the new record.
>
> And yes it may be that I know little about the myriad of problems
> involved with replication...but I do know how to carry on a civil,
> adult conversation....maybe we can have a knowledge exchange.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mike
Mike,
If all you need is for your trigger to make a simple query on another
db then you can use dblink or an untrusted version of one of the
available procedural languages such as plperlu or plpythonu.
Erik Jones
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