On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 15:00 -0500, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > Hello, > Oracle has a concept of Database link, IE you can access data from a table in > different database, even if the database is in different host, using > something like > > SELECT * FROM [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > > Is there something similar in PostgreSQL? I would like to know if I can > access > my data on a remote PostgreSQL server from a local PostgreSQL database. > > Thank you in advance for any respond. > > RDB
You can use dblink. > dblink - Functions to return results from a remote database > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/queries-table-expressions.html example: > SELECT * > FROM dblink('dbname=mydb', 'select proname, prosrc from pg_proc') > AS t1(proname name, prosrc text) > WHERE proname LIKE 'bytea%'; > Cheers, Robby -- /*************************************** * Robby Russell | Owner.Developer.Geek * PLANET ARGON | www.planetargon.com * Portland, OR | [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 503.351.4730 | blog.planetargon.com * PHP-PostgreSQL Hosting & Development * open source solutions - web hosting ****************************************/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
