Take a stab at plproxy if you want to remotly call functions. Should be much
better suited than dblink for that.
Regards
Asko
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmonc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/24/09, Ian Sollars <ian.soll...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I've got some questions about dblink that I couldn't find answers to in
> the
> > documentation. Any help would be much appreciated.
> >
> > I need to invoke a function on a remote server that returns either void
> or
> > text, and I'm trying to find a nice way of doing it.
> >
>
> did you try this?
> perform * from dblink('test', 'select inserttest()') as t1(test text);
>
> Anyways, I never write void returning functions. Another problem with
> them (for example) is that they can't be called using the binary query
> protocol. These are minor nits since the workaround is easy.
>
> merlin
>
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