Re: Connection to second database on server

Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Troy Rasiah <troyr(at)vicnet(dot)net(dot)au> wrote:
>>
>> Scott Marlowe wrote:
>>> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Troy Rasiah <troyr(at)vicnet(dot)net(dot)au> wrote:
>>>> Sorry for bringing up an old post...If you have a generic set of tables..
>>>>
>>>> eg. table of countries / post codes etc which are used across several
>>>> databases what is the best way to access / store them?
>>>> I currently
>>>> - use dblink to create views when i want to do joins,
>>>> OR
>>>> - i just open up a separate db handle when i just want to display the
>>>> data (via a perl script) from the 'generic database' (eg. a select list
>>>> of countries)
>>>>
>>>> but was wondering whether schema's would apply to me as well ?
>>> Yes, schemas would be much better. The nice thing is with
>>> search_path, you could have a setup where application1 and
>>> application2 live in different schemas but have access to a common
>>> schema. When running app1, you'd do something like:
>>>
>>> set search_path='app1','commonschema';
>>>
>>> and when running app2 you'd change the app1 up there to app2 and then
>>> you could access the tables in both schemas without having to use
>>> prefixes.
>>
>> Thanks Scott. We currently do websites for different customers on the
>> same machine so we have been setting each of them up with individual
>> (database,user,pass).
>>
>> Instead should i be setting them all up in the one database and having
>> individual schema's for each customer and then only granting each user
>> access to their schema & the proposed 'commonschema' ?
>
> That's how I'd do it. You probably want to drop the public schema as
> well. If you need to separate everybody from each other into their
> own database, then you could always replicate the common schema to
> each db, but if the common schema is large or changes a lot this
> could be a pain.

Thanks for the info, much appreciated.

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Troy Rasiah