Re: Oracle vs. PostgreSQL - a comment

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Ravi Krishna <sravikrishna(at)comcast(dot)net>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Oracle vs. PostgreSQL - a comment
Date: 2020-06-13 18:47:33
Message-ID: 20200613184733.GF20552@momjian.us
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On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 03:45:08PM -0400, Ravi Krishna wrote:
>
> >
> > Generally speaking, I discourage having lots of databases under one PG
> > cluster for exactly these kinds of reasons. PG's individual clusters
> > are relatively lightweight, after all.
> >
>
> Plus PG does not directly support cross database queries using 3 part name, something
> sqlserver excels at.

We consider the lack of this ability to be a security benefit.
Cross-container queries can be done using schemas.

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