Subject Re: [Firebird-Architect] RFC: Improvements to External Tables
Author Alex Peshkov
On Sunday 12 October 2008 19:21, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
> Alex Peshkov wrote:
> > First problem. Currently external engines access is actively developed by
> > the project. Looks like very soon we will be able access virtually any
> > file format using ODBC. Would not extending of external tables be just a
> > duplication of our efforts in that direction?
>
> Yes, and in two different ways.
>
> One would be through selectable Java procedures, using any (or ODBC)
> JDBC driver. It will be read-only.
>
> Another one would be through remote providers. It could be read-write.

Adriano, are there future plans to work directly with remote tables? i.e.
INSERT or SELECT?