Re: Schemas and foreign keys

From: Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>
To: "'marcelo *EXTERN*'" <marcelo(dot)nicolet(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Schemas and foreign keys
Date: 2017-07-21 14:16:56
Message-ID: A737B7A37273E048B164557ADEF4A58B53A85CCE@ntex2010i.host.magwien.gv.at
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marcelo wrote:
> Recently I asked regarding schemas, and received very useful answers. I
> conclude that I can put some tables in one schema and left others in the
> public one.
> If my app selects some schema, the backend will found automatically the
> absent tables in "public".
> So far, so good.
> But what about foreign keys? At least, I will have foreign keys from the
> tables in the specified schema to the tables in "public", because I'm
> thinking that the tables in "public" would be references, while the
> tables residing in the specified schema will be the transactional ones.

That shouldn't be a problem; schemas are just namespaces (with the option
to exclude users through permissions).

Try it and report back if you encounter problems.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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