Re: Many little databases or one big one?

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>
To: Jason Hihn <jhihn(at)paytimepayroll(dot)com>
Cc: Pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Many little databases or one big one?
Date: 2003-05-08 00:20:15
Message-ID: 20030507192015.H66185@flake.decibel.org
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On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 04:04:24PM -0400, Jason Hihn wrote:
> make views for each former database (after appending a key to each table,
> and appropriately naming the view). This would be much more manageable,

You need to be careful if performance is an issue. Because PGSQL doesn't
support clustered indexes/index organized tables, you can get into a
situation where you end up tablescanning instead of using the index to
access the particular set of data you want.

If you look in the performance archives for April, you'll see several
messages about this.
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