Re: dblink_ora - a first shot on Oracle ...

Joe Conway wrote:
> > PS: Has anyone looked any further at the SQL-MED standard?  ISTM that's
> > where we ought to head in the long run.
> 
> I think for that very reason (SQL-MED) we need to come to terms with 
> this issue. If/when connections to external data sources is in the 
> backend, you'll have those exact same dependencies. And in fact, we do 
> today: consider '--with-openssl' or '--with-tcl'.
> 
> I had always assumed we would need '--with-oracle', '--with-jdbc',  etc 
> (or whatever you want to call them) to support backend connections to 
> external sources. And this discussion is the very reason I was hesitant 
> to pursue dblink_ora or jdbclink now, because I didn't think people 
> would be comfortable with configure options to support a contrib library.

I know we normally require a configure flag to look for special
capabilities, like ssl, but I thought we could skip that because it was
a /contrib and just look by default, but I now see that people don't
want to take that step.

I thought dblink was too integrated in the backend code to be a separate
project.

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