Re: Hope for a new PostgreSQL era?

On 8 Prosinec 2011, 18:00, Marc Cousin wrote:
> Le Thu, 8 Dec 2011 16:27:56 +0000,
> "Nicholson, Brad (Toronto, ON, CA)" <bnicholson(at)hp(dot)com> a écrit :
>
>> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Marc Cousin <cousinmarc(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> > > wrote:
>> >
>> > I wish it was the same (I use and like both pgbouncer and pgpool
>> > too, and they do a good job, I'm not arguing on that). But
>> > unfortunately it isn't: you still have the notion of session for
>> > each connected client in Oracle when using the shared servers model.
>> >
>> > It means you keep your session variables, your prepared statements,
>> > your running transaction, etc… in each individual session while
>> > having the multiplexing equivalent of a 'statement level' from
>> > pgbouncer.
>>
>> In Oracle - can the pool share connections between DB users and/or
>> databases on the instance? If the answer is yes to either, that is a
>> fair bit better than what we can achieve today.
>
> Between users yes. But there is only one DB per instance in Oracle :)

Because Oracle uses schemas instead of databases. One schema = one user =
one database.

Tomas