Re: Multiple logical databases

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: "Mark Woodward" <pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Stephan Szabo" <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Multiple logical databases
Date: 2006-02-03 15:06:02
Message-ID: 200602031606.03571.peter_e@gmx.net
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Mark Woodward wrote:
> Oh come on, "misinformed?" is that really called for?

Claiming that all databases share the same system tables is misinformed,
with no judgement passed.

> The street database is typically generated and QAed in the lab. It is
> then uploaded to the server. It has many millions of rows and about a
> half dozen indexes. To dump and reload takes almost a day.

There is work happening on speeding up bulk loads.

> Unless you can tell me how to insert live data and indexes to a
> cluster without having to reload the data and recreate the indexes,

I think this sort of thing can be worked on. VACUUM FREEZE and some
tool support could make this happen.

--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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