Re: Regarding Distributed Database features

On July 13, 2007 08:16 am, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Chidambaram Janamaddi wrote:
> > Hello!
> >                   Can you please let me know whether postgreSQL has
> > Distributed Database supporting features?
>
> No.
>
> > Which of the Distributed database functionalities are totally or
> > partially supported among the following ......................
> >
> >     *   Local autonomy
> >     *   No reliance on a central site
> >     *   Continuous operation
> >     *   Location independence
> >     *   Fragmentation independence
> >     *   Replication independence
> >     *   Distributed query independence
> >     *   Distributed transaction processing
> >     *   Hardware independence
> >     *   Operating system independence
> >     *   Network independence
> >     *   Database independence

It's a database server, so Database independance dos't make much sence here.
However using 3rd party adons such as dbi-link, you can query other, non
PostgreSQL databases from within the PostgreSQL RDBMS.


Now that I take a second read through these questions,  I suspect that you
arn't even sure what it is you are asking, but are just trying to do some
sort of purely marketing based feature comparison.


> >
> > Hope you reply me at the earliest possible.
> >
> >                                           Thanks and regards.
> >
> >
> > ------Chidambaram

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