Received: from maia.hub.org (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D8EC634C60 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:52:50 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 56458-07 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:52:42 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sd-17937.dedibox.fr (sd-17937.dedibox.fr [88.191.100.74]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A629663350D for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:52:42 -0400 (AST) Received: from laptop.localnet (LCaen-151-93-7-26.w80-13.abo.wanadoo.fr [80.13.230.26]) by sd-17937.dedibox.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 264DE3B8EE; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:52:41 +0100 (CET) From: Guillaume Lelarge To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: CREATE SERVER - what is this? Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:52:34 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.3 (Linux/2.6.31-15-generic; KDE/4.3.3; i686; ; ) Cc: Richard Broersma References: <396486430911240745q28c62f0dnd540925827f02623@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <396486430911240745q28c62f0dnd540925827f02623@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200911261152.35050.guillaume@lelarge.info> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.956 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_NJABL_PROXY=1.643 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200911/74 X-Sequence-Number: 33425 Le mardi 24 novembre 2009 =E0 16:45:27, Richard Broersma a =E9crit : > I noticed a few new SQL references in the manual: >=20 > CREATE SERVER > CREATE FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER, > CREATE USER MAPPING >=20 > Is this similar to DBI-Link? >=20 They appear on the 8.4 release. They were added to support the use of SQL/M= ED=20 compliant FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER, SERVER, and USER MAPPING as method to suppl= y=20 dblink connect parameters. dblink can already use these informations AFAIK. =2D-=20 Guillaume. http://www.postgresqlfr.org http://dalibo.com