Re: connections between servers

Marcin Krawczyk wrote:
> Hi all. I was wondering if it's possible for a trigger to perform
operations
> on a database on different server? I saw somewhere that there's a piece
of
> software that allows conneciotns between different databases, but what
about
> different servers? I also thought about using perl, would it be possible
to
> connect to different server from within perl trigger?
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> regards
> mk
> 
Yes it is possible. A PL/Perl trigger is one option you have.

dblink (in contrib) and dbi-link, dblink-tds, oralink and odbclink are 
other options at pgfoundry.org depending on your needs.


There was a recent discussion in the general mailing list about this.

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2008-03/msg01343.php





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