Re: What is the benefit of schemas?

I think your ideas are accurate. You can put each app/user in a
separate schema. There is no performance penalty.

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Berend Tober wrote:
> The introduction of schemas in PostgreSQL v 7.3 seems like an
> important improvement, since that is a feature many expensive,
> proprietory RDMS have, but I'm wondering how I should be using it.
>
> After I installed 7.3 and then brought my database over, I created an
> application-specific schema and defined my tables and other database
> objects within that name space, rather than the "public" name space.
> But, I'm thinking, if that is all I do, then what is the point?
>
> I realize that with schemas, you can allow individual users to create
> tables in their own user-accessible schemas, but I'm not sure yet
> what the utility of that is.
>
> So my question is, I guess, what would be some typical or
> archetypical ways that the ability to use schemas would be a good
> thing, for example?
>
> The only thing I've come up with so far as possiblities is something
> like having most of an application's domain-specific tables defined
> in an application-specific schema, but then maybe define in the
> public schema tables such as for locations (city, state/province,
> country, postal code, etc.) or generic personal attributes such as
> tables defining gender or courtesy titles (i.e., Mr., Mrs., etc.).
>
> Does it make sense to utilize schemas in such a way as to support say
> multiple, separate, mostly un-related applications by having a
> separate, application-specific schema for the objects specific to
> each particular application, and then share items like I suggested
> above in the public schema?
>
>
>
> My follow-up question then is to ask whether there is a performance
> penalty to having additional schemas, i.e., if I am supporting
> multiple applications with one database but multiple schemas within
> that database, is database server performance going to suffer as the
> number of schemas grows?
>
> Regards,
> Berend Tober
>
>
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