Re: Changing the concept of a DATABASE

> 1. Ability to have a Role that can only access one Database
>
> 2. Allow user info to be dumped with a database, to make a db
> completely self-consistent
>
> 3. Allow databases to be transportable
>
> 4. Allow users to access tables in >1 database easily, with appropriate rights.

The last requirement seems completely contradictory to the other three.
Either we're trying to make databases even more isolated as
multi-tenant Catalogs, or we're not. Trying to do both at the same time
is failure-by-design.

Given that we offer schema as an alternative to multiple databases, and
users are starting to get used to them, I think that requirement (4) is
just a bad idea, and not worth pursuing, except in the context of pgsql_fdw.

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Josh Berkus
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