Re: [HACKERS] External Tabular Data Via SQL

2004-10-04 Thread Josh Berkus
David, Please find enclosed an example of what I hope to make into a generalized way of accessing external tabular data via SQL. This is very cool, and I look forward to playing with it. However,it seems to me that pgFoundry is the place for it and not /contrib. We're really trying not to

Re: [HACKERS] External Tabular Data Via SQL

2004-10-04 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Josh Berkus wrote: David, Please find enclosed an example of what I hope to make into a generalized way of accessing external tabular data via SQL. This is very cool, and I look forward to playing with it. However,it seems to me that pgFoundry is the place for it and not /contrib.

[HACKERS] External Tabular Data Via SQL

2004-10-03 Thread David Fetter
Kind people, Please find enclosed an example of what I hope to make into a generalized way of accessing external tabular data via SQL. It is written in PL/PerlU for portability reasons, although it could probably be re-written in C at the cost of some large amount of effort. It depends on