On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmonc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Sam Nelson <s...@consistentstate.com> > wrote: > > Hi List, > > We have a customer who is trying to migrate a few PostgresPlus instances > to > > GridSQL clusters. They have a process that pulls data from another > server > > using dblink every night, and we're trying to replicate that on the > GridSQL > > instance, but grid is being a bit of a pain. > > Grid doesn't seem to allow functions in from statements, and, of course, > it > > spits out errors about functions returning records being called in the > wrong > > context if we just try "select dblink(foo, bar);" (we had to try it). > > Has anyone else run into this specific issue? > GridSQL itself doesn't support functions. > Is there a known workaround? > > Any ideas on what else we should try? > > You'd have to present the data to be partitioned to the gsql controller for partitioning to happen properly, or use the high-speed import that it comes with. Could you dump the data to an intermediary csv and then push it at the import utility? --Scott > have you considered wrapping the output of the dblink query in a view? > > merlin > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general >
