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Re: Migrating from Informix to Postgre

Herbert Liechti <herbie@thinx.ch>

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From: Herbert Liechti <herbie@thinx.ch>
To: Dinesh Anchan <dinesh@pinksheets.com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-10-18T20:30:14Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Dinesh Anchan wrote:

> Thank you for your response.
>
> I understand that it is not heterogenous.  Is it open?
>
> Let's say, I am running a transaction in Informix and part of that
> transaction has to update another database which is running on Postgre.  Is
> this possible?  Informix claims that it supports heterogenous transactions
> as long as other participating database servers are capable of doing so.

You can do that on the application level. Perl i.e. is capable to
handle several db-connections.

Best regards
Herbie