Re: schema or database

From: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: schema or database
Date: 2015-04-13 02:24:30
Message-ID: 552B28DE.2050007@hogranch.com
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On 4/12/2015 7:20 PM, Ian Barwick wrote:
> If as you say access to the database is via a single application database
> user, it will probably make more sense to use multiple schemas rather than
> multiple databases. Keeping everything in one database will simplify
> administration (e.g. making backups - ypu'll just need to dump the one database
> rather than looping through a variable number) and will make life easier if you
> ever need to do some kind of query involving multiple customers.
> There will also be less overhead when adding a new schema vs adding
> a new database.

and less overhead in connections, as one client connection can serve
multiple customers

--
john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz

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