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To: Andre Truter <linux@trusoft.co.za>
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Subject: Re: DBlink documentation
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Andre Truter wrote:

>Where do I find documentation for using dblink?
>
>I am running PostgreSQL 8.03 on SuSE 9.3 and I installed the
>postgresql-contrib package, but it only includes the README for dblink,
>which only lists the functions, but it does not include any information
>on how to use it.
>
>For instance, it would list:
>
>dblink_connect(text) RETURNS text.
>
>But what should 'text' be?
>
>I searched through the Postgres site and mailing list archives and I get
>a lot of references of "look in the dblink documentation".
>Unfortunately I have have not yet been able to find this documentation?
>
>Can anybody please give me a link to the documentation?
>
>Thanks 
>  
>

It's  on  the contrib package
or in the contrib  dir  if you installed from source


leonel