Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.184]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DE4B2E0132 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:18:53 -0300 (ADT) Received: from developer.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 12589-01-5 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:18:41 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from mail.fmed.uba.ar (mail.fmed.uba.ar [157.92.152.1]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD0DC2E00E9 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:17:34 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [157.92.155.58] (mailbis [157.92.155.58]) by mail.fmed.uba.ar (Postfix) with ESMTP id A92D2159822; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:17:29 -0300 (ART) Message-ID: <4805EA7E.4010009@fmed.uba.ar> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:01:02 -0300 From: Gerardo Herzig User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sumaya , "pgsql-sql@postgresql.org" Subject: Re: Multiple databases References: <000601c89f8f$7741f490$0f02000a@sumayavm> In-Reply-To: <000601c89f8f$7741f490$0f02000a@sumayavm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200804/94 X-Sequence-Number: 30633 Sumaya wrote: >Hi, > >I am converting sql code from sql server to postgresql. Data is currently being retrieved from multiple databases, how do I do this using postgresql. I have tried using eg. select * from datbasename.tablename but this does not work. Any ideas? > >Thanks, >Sumaya > > Are you saying that you want a particular function stored in say database A to be able to retrieve some data from dabatase X? If that so, you may take a look to the dblink contrib package. Gerardo