RES: concept question: PostgreSQL vs. Oracle database

Dear newbie!

Although Postgres is best free open ORDBMS available, it hasn´t
schemas as Oracle does. Schemas will come in next version os Postgres: 7.3.
All information you can find at www.postgres.org.

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E.F.:> De: marko(dot)asplund(at)kronodoc(dot)fi [mailto:marko(dot)asplund(at)kronodoc(dot)fi]
E.F.:> Enviada em: segunda-feira, 5 de agosto de 2002 06:58
E.F.:> Para: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
E.F.:> Assunto: [GENERAL] concept question: PostgreSQL vs.
E.F.:> Oracle database
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E.F.:> i'm a PostgreSQL newbie trying to set up a PostgreSQL
E.F.:> for development
E.F.:> purposes. i've previously been using Oracle8i and i'm a
E.F.:> bit confused about
E.F.:> the differences in database and user concepts in Oracle
E.F.:> vs. PostgreSQL. in
E.F.:> Oracle all the users in a database have their own
E.F.:> database schemas by
E.F.:> default. in PostgreSQL this doesn't seem to be the case.
E.F.:> when i create a
E.F.:> database and connect to it with two different user
E.F.:> accounts both see
E.F.:> tables created by the other. is database in PostgreSQL
E.F.:> more like a
E.F.:> database schema in Oracle? where could i find a
E.F.:> definition of these
E.F.:> concepts?
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