| From: | Anand Raman <araman(at)india-today(dot)com> |
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| To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: How I can join between the other database's tables? |
| Date: | 2000-12-28 14:31:29 |
| Message-ID: | 20001228200129.P32050@india-today.com |
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hi all,
I second this opnion..
Coming from a web development environment, it could help us to
distribute load on our servers..
regards
Anand
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 08:21:26AM -0500, Adam Rossi wrote:
>On Wednesday 27 December 2000 08:44 pm, Adam Haberlach wrote:
>
>> I'm pretty sure you are right. If your data is related enough to be
>> joined, it should be related enough to be in the same database.
>
>I have to disagree. When you start getting into the hundreds of tables, some
>form of partitioning is helpful for any number of reasons - security,
>backups, data ownership, management, etc. I have seen oracle installations
>with hundreds of databases, each with hundreds of tables, and often the users
>would write queries that linked across databases....for example linking from
>the employee table in the HR database to the log tables in an application
>database. If this installation had been "flattened" to one giant database, it
>would have been a nightmare.
>
>I for one really wish that PostgreSQL had this functionality. It is one of
>the biggest things that I miss from other databases.
>
>Regards,
>
>Adam
>
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>Adam Rossi
>PlatinumSolutions, Inc.
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