Re: Schema partitioning

On Sep 1, 2011, at 14:13, Charlie <scorpdaddy(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Could I get feedback from the community on schema partitioning?
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> I'm doing maintenance on my ddl and I'm noticing that my tables are all in 1 schema, but they have prefixes on their names like table_app1_sometable, table_app1_secondtable, table_app2_anothertable, table_priviledged_restrictedtable1, etc. The table_app1 tables seem to want to go in their own schema "app1", etc, and drop the prefixes. Except they'll still be there, as in app1.sometable.
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> Is this just style? Or are there concrete benefits to partitioning?
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Mostly style but some ease-of-use when it comes to permissions as well. It's really no different than why you'd use sub-directories in your OS instead of putting everything in C/root.

It does give you namespaces features as well (I.e., duplicate names but in different contexts).

David J.