po 19. 10. 2020 v 20:18 odesílatel Igor Korot <ikorot01@xxxxxxxxx> napsal:
Hi, Pavel,
On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 12:51 PM Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi
>
> po 19. 10. 2020 v 19:40 odesílatel Igor Korot <ikorot01@xxxxxxxxx> napsal:
>>
>> Hi,
>> IIUC, PostgreSQL does not support attaching a database to an existing
>> connection.
>> However I was told that I can use this:
>> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/postgres-fdw.html.
>>
>> Is it the same thing? Why there is no simple
>>
>> ATTACH <db> AS <dbname>
>>
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> It is a different thing - postgresql_fdw does nested connect - it uses client-server protocol.
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> For postgres connect and sql engine process is one entity - and engine is written without a possibility to reconnect to another database.
So if I understand correctly the postgresql_fdw is creating a second
connection and uses it as kind of "virtualizing mechanism"
in order to give access to the second database.
yes - it does new connect to somewhere (local or remote server, but mechanism is absolutely same)
Am I right?
Thank you.
>
> Regards
>
> Pavel
>
>
>
>>
>> ?
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>> Thank you.
>>
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