F.10. dblink
- dblink_connect - opens a persistent connection to a remote database
 - dblink_connect_u - opens a persistent connection to a remote database, insecurely
 - dblink_disconnect - closes a persistent connection to a remote database
 - dblink - executes a query in a remote database
 - dblink_exec - executes a command in a remote database
 - dblink_open - opens a cursor in a remote database
 - dblink_fetch - returns rows from an open cursor in a remote database
 - dblink_close - closes a cursor in a remote database
 - dblink_get_connections - returns the names of all open named dblink connections
 - dblink_error_message - gets last error message on the named connection
 - dblink_send_query - sends an async query to a remote database
 - dblink_is_busy - checks if connection is busy with an async query
 - dblink_get_notify - retrieve async notifications on a connection
 - dblink_get_result - gets an async query result
 - dblink_cancel_query - cancels any active query on the named connection
 - dblink_get_pkey - returns the positions and field names of a relation's primary key fields
 - dblink_build_sql_insert - builds an INSERT statement using a local tuple, replacing the primary key field values with alternative supplied values
 - dblink_build_sql_delete - builds a DELETE statement using supplied values for primary key field values
 - dblink_build_sql_update - builds an UPDATE statement using a local tuple, replacing the primary key field values with alternative supplied values
 
  
   dblink
  
  is a module that supports connections to
  other
  
   PostgreSQL
  
  databases from within a database
  session.
 
See also postgres_fdw , which provides roughly the same functionality using a more modern and standards-compliant infrastructure.