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From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>
To: Michael Dengler <michael.dengler@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: How to use a trigger to write rows to a remote server
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:46:05 +0100
Message-ID: <469E199D.1040402@enterprisedb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e8733d090707180636q45bb5d16vff3e79c2d60d2e83@mail.gmail.com>
References: <e8733d090707180636q45bb5d16vff3e79c2d60d2e83@mail.gmail.com>

Michael Dengler wrote:
> I am trying to find out how to use a trigger function on a table to copy
> any
> inserted row to a remote PG server.

Have a look at contrib/dblink.

You'll have to think what you want to happen in error scenarios. For
example, if the connection is down, or it brakes just after inserting
the row to the other db, but before committing. Or if the insert on the
other server succeeds, but the local transaction aborts.

-- 
  Heikki Linnakangas
  EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com



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