> or carefully structure your dblink joins so they can perform efficiently, > possibly using temp tables as a sort of materialized view. According to the documents unless you are writing procedural code with cursors when you touch the dblink view it will pull the entire table/recordset over. > > thats really all that the fancier database engines do behind the scenes... > and even then, distributed joins can be painful. I am not sure what they do but I have done this kind of thing in SQL server without any problems and with almost no performance penalty if the two databases were on the same instance. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general