Re: [HACKERS] Schemas: status report, call for developers

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bill Cunningham <billc(at)ballydev(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-interfaces <pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Schemas: status report, call for developers
Date: 2002-06-08 04:42:20
Message-ID: 200206080442.g584gKJ09199@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> If you don't create schemas then you get backwards-compatible behavior
> (all the users end up sharing the "public" schema as their current
> schema).

I am a little uncomfortable about this. It means that CREATE TABLE will
create a table in 'public' if the user doesn't have a schema of their
own, and in their private schema if it exists. I seems strange to have
such a distinction based on whether a private schema exists. Is this OK?

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