RE: [chat] Postgres

[Jill Rowling <Rowling@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I don't know about Postgres but one of the problems with any growing project
that uses databases is "how to link this to that" where "this" was designed
by one team and "that" was designed by another.
In DB terms I believe it's done with an intersection table which maybe MySQL
doen't support but which Postgres does?
At work, I am often contemplating how to link disparate data sources
together, although ATM some of the sources aren't even DBs (think
directories of files, access dbs, mysql dbs, CAD internal DBs, Excel
spreadsheets... man! where do people keep stuff!).
Maybe a purist would not link different databases, but the real world is
full of the most amazing data repositories.

Regards,

Jill.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Faulks [mailto:peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, 12 September 2001 0:37
> To: chat slug
> Subject: [chat] Postgres
> 
> 
> G'day
> 
> Possibly off-topic, so I've sent this to chat rather than the 
> main list.
> 
> I'm finally getting around to looking at Postgres, and I have 
> to say I  
> _dont_ like the idea of the global object id. This implies a 
> connection 
> between different databases which IMO simply should not exist.
> 
> What do others think, and are there any 'Gotchas' I should be 
> aware of?
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
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