Re: Creating schema best practices - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Christian Ullrich
Subject Re: Creating schema best practices
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In response to Re: Creating schema best practices  ("Babay Adi, Hava" <hava.babay@hp.com>)
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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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