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List:       postgresql-general
Subject:    Re: [HACKERS] Are we losing momentum?
From:       "Robert E. Bruccoleri" <bruc () stone ! congenomics ! com>
Date:       2003-04-16 16:41:09
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Dear Tom,
> 
> Please keep in mind that I was replying to a poster who said "cross-db
> queries on the same server (meaning same postmaster, for our purposes)
> are trivial; why hasn't Postgres got them when everybody else does?"

My apologies for missing that context.

> Your above arguments are all good ones, but they presume a scenario that
> is much different and *MUCH* harder to implement than local "cross
> database" queries.  My point is that schemas solve the same-server
> problems that the original poster was interested in.  I did not say,
> nor mean, that there is no need for cross-server queries.  But that is
> a different problem.  Today we can only offer dblink; maybe someday
> SQL-MED.

Agreed. Thanks. --Bob

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