Scott Marlowe wrote:
> OTOH, there are some things, like importing data, which are MUCH faster
> in pgsql than in the big database.
An excellent point, I forgot about this. The COPY command is the best thing since the invention of a shirt pocket. We have a database-per-customer design, and one of the mosterous advantages of Postgres is that we can easily do backups. A pg_dump, then scp to a backup server, and in just a minute or two we have a full backup. For recovery, pg_restore is equally fast and amazing. Last time I checked, Oracle didn't have anything close to this.
Craig