Re: Multiple logical databases

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Mark Woodward" <pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Multiple logical databases
Date: 2006-02-02 15:19:04
Message-ID: 15666.1138893544@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Mark Woodward" <pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com> writes:
> One of the problems with the current PostgreSQL design is that all the
> databases operated by one postmaster server process are interlinked at
> some core level. They all share the same system tables. If one database
> becomes corrupt because of disk or something, the whole cluster is
> affected.

This problem is not as large as you paint it, because most of the system
catalogs are *not* shared.

> Does anyone see this as useful?

No...

regards, tom lane

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