Re: [HACKERS] Need help for our thesis.

2003-07-06 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On 4 Jul 2003 at 18:56, MIka Santos wrote: > said online registration. He wanted a multidatabase querying. For example, we > knew that the following statements are posible, > select * > from t1, t2., t3; > provided that t1 and t2, t3 are tables from a single database. > Ourthesis is to make the

Re: [HACKERS] Need help for our thesis.

2003-07-06 Thread Hans-Jürgen Schönig
Hello Mika Currently you can use dblink which queries a remote database and returns the data as a table. This works nicely for PostgreSQL. There is also a JDBC version in progress. We have writte an Oracle version of dblink. SELECT * FROM dblink('connectstr', 'SELECT ...') AS some_type; This w

Re: [HACKERS] Need help for our thesis.

2003-07-05 Thread Richard Schilling
As luck would have I've put some thought into this problem before as well. Having reviewed the code quite a bit, and played around with the backend, my intuition tells me that the following would work. Write a custom "cluster-aware" postmaster so it distributes queries to various machines. Of

[HACKERS] Need help for our thesis.

2003-07-04 Thread MIka Santos
Gud day! We are currently having our thesis for our undergarduate course and this involoves the code of PostgreSQL. Basically, our thesis needs a modification of the existing code of the said database. As of now, our University has an existing online registration system which uses Postgre as their