Subject Re: [Firebird-Architect] RFC: Improvements to External Tables
Author Adriano dos Santos Fernandes
Alex Peshkov wrote:
> 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?
AFAIK, this is the future for work started with remote exec. statement.
So I leave this question to Vlad.


Adriano