Message-Id: <10520.107977@fatcity.com>
From: sean.hull@pobox.com
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 18:28:47 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: RE dblink: 

On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Jared Still wrote:

> Having consistent dblink names allows development, user 
> acceptance and production to all use the same database
> link name, just pointing to different instances.

Jared:

I see the advantages here, but there are also disadvantages to location
transparency too.  Network latency could be a big problem.