Re: Live Link to Oracle?

On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 08:37:16AM -0400, Ted Taylor wrote:
> I'd like to set up a pgsql database that has server-based links back to
> an Oracle db.  Not replication, but a live link (the data I'm looking
> for can change rapidly).  The pgsql client would see it as a native
> pgsql table, but the pgsql server would submit the query to Oracle in
> real-time.  Basically, a view of the Oracle data.

There is a dblink in in the postgres source that does this between seperate
postgres servers. Perhaps just altering this to deal if oracle servers
instead would be possible?

Hope this helps,
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