Re: Creating schema best practices

From: Christian Ullrich <chris(at)chrullrich(dot)net>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Creating schema best practices
Date: 2012-10-05 15:07:57
Message-ID: k4mt4o$g0b$3@ger.gmane.org
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* Babay Adi, Hava wrote:

> On the same regard – Some of the mentioned modules in the mentioned
> application use a set of tables which is logically separate (there are
> no join statements with tables of other modules). What are the pros\cons
> of using a separate database instead of a separate schema for
> maintaining such tables?

For one thing, with multiple databases you cannot easily take consistent
backups using pg_dump, because a transaction is local to a single database.

--
Christian

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