Bug #7982 FEDERATED storage engine
Submitted: 18 Jan 2005 10:40 Modified: 21 Jul 2008 13:46
Reporter: [ name withheld ] (Basic Quality Contributor) Email Updates:
Status: Verified Impact on me:
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Category:MySQL Server: Federated storage engine Severity:S4 (Feature request)
Version:5 OS:Any
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[18 Jan 2005 10:40] [ name withheld ]
Description:
Couldn't you implement dblinks? (or better linked servers?) and the COMMENT used to hold the connection string .... arghhhh

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[21 Feb 2006 11:22] Valeriy Kravchuk
Thank you for a feature request. There are plans to implement dblinks for MySQL server already. Not sure about the exact version, though.
[21 Jul 2008 13:46] [ name withheld ]
Well, it took a while but I think now we got there, see http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/2008/07/21/federated-storage-engine-disabled-by-default-in-mysq...