Re: Linking 2 or more databases.

   Hi All (once more),

  Oops, sorry I forgot to mention: I'm running on

PostgreSQL v.7.2.3,
Linux 2.4.19 (Slackware 8.1).

 Leif



On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Leif Jensen wrote:

>
>     Hi Bruce,
>
>   Thank you for you quick response. Just what I needed :-).
>
>   I just thought this was part of the SQL standard !?
>
>  Leif
>
>
>
> On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
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> >
> > See FAQ item 4.24.  See the web site version because it is updated.
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Leif Jensen wrote:
> > >
> > >     Hi All,
> > >
> > >   I need to get information from 2 (or more) database preferably in one
> > > select statement. Is there a way to join tables from different databases
> > > in the same SQL ? Can I have a 'virtual' foreign key ? Can I make a view
> > > 'cross database' ? Can I make some server side programming to accomplish
> > > this task ? Where do I find documentation if any ?
> > >
> > >   Thanks for any ideas,
> > >
> > >  Leif
> > >
> > >
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