Swaminathan Saikumar wrote: > Thanks for telling me that Postgres doesn't support cross-database joins. > I know MS Sql Server does. And one of the companies I worked for used it, to > sometimes have a secure database with sensitive info behind a firewall join > queries with a less secure database. > > Is this something worth considering adding as a feature to Postgres? No. Most people who need this use schemas. Frankly, if you can do cross-db queries you are kind of losing the security value. We do have /contrib/dblink that does cross-db queries. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://postgres.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
