On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Mike Christensen <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks! > > I've never done that in PG before, but I've used named connections > with Oracle. Is it the same sort of deal? There's a file on the disk > somewhere with the connection info? Either way, I'm sure it's a RTFM > thing so I'll look into it. yeah, there's a good example in the docs here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/contrib-dblink-connect.html btw, if you have a structure in test that matches production, then you can use a composite type trick to avoid having to specify fields as long as you keep those structures in sync (which you have to do anyways). try: select (u).* from dblink( 'hostaddr=123.123.123.123 dbname=ProductionDB user=ROUser password=secret', 'select u from users u') as t1(u users); it should work as long as users exists on both sides and has exactly the same structure. using that method it's trivial to make a dblink wrapper that could query any table but you couldn't wrap it into a single view obviously. merlin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
