Re: do separate databases have any impact each other?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: TJ O'Donnell <tjo(at)acm(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: do separate databases have any impact each other?
Date: 2005-08-16 03:33:11
Message-ID: 20050816033311.GF27414@alvh.no-ip.org
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On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 01:15:03PM -0700, TJ O'Donnell wrote:
> While writing installation instructions for my new PostgreSQL product, I
> found myself
> writing the following sentence:
> "For first time users, we recommend building the gnova database,
> since it has no impact on other databases."

A problem not mentioned already is that if your database contains a C
function and it has a bug which results in a crash, your whole
production database will go down. This may not be desirable.

(plphp may cause that too, for some functions, as we saw in a report on
some list a couple of days ago ...)

--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]alvh.no-ip.org>)
"Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without"

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