Re: maximum number of databases and / or schemas in a single database instance

From: Chris Angelico <rosuav(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: maximum number of databases and / or schemas in a single database instance
Date: 2012-08-05 04:34:55
Message-ID: CAPTjJmqe=59prp9Ks9r6GXoLmg8PVe7KQTiDjk_PC1WAr7WT-w@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Menelaos PerdikeasSemantix <mperdikeas(dot)semantix(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> The following page:
>> http://www.postgresql.org/about/
>
>> mentions some limits but not the following:
>
>> [1] maximum number of databases per database server instance
>> [2] maximum number of schemas per database
>
>> Is there empirical information on whether both these values can be as high
>> as a few hundreds? (I don't really need any more for my use case)
>
> You can certainly have hundreds of schemas.

What about thousands of schemas? Is there significant cost to schemas
beyond the tables they contain?

Chris Angelico

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