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Subject: Re: Foreign key from another database
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Antti Ij=E4s wrote:
> Can I have a reference (with cascading), to another database? Let me
> try to explain the situation a little better ;-)
>=20

You can write a trigger that uses functions from contrib/dblink to=20
execute a command in another database. However, without two-phase commit=20
support I don't think you can be sure the entire operation is atomic.

Joe