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Oracle FDW

Postgres foreign data wrapper for Oracle database

Introduction

This is part 2 of #fdw foreign data wrappers series of posts. In part 1 it was described what foreign data mean in Postgres as well as provided an example of connection to MySQL database. In this post we will deal with accessing data in Oracle database.

MySQL FDW

Postgres foreign data wrapper for MySQL database

Foreign data access

This is the first part of #fdw foreign data wrappers series of posts.

One of the great features in Postgres is the ability to access data stored in outer sources as if they were stored in ordinary tables within the database. There is no requirement to the source as is. For example, it can be another RDBMS such as Oracle or MySQL. But we are not limited to relational databases only. It can be also just a csv file or even Hadoop file system objects. All you need to do to get access to these data is to install corresponding foreing data wrapper extension.