Re: Foreign Keys Question

Will inherits helps you ?

create table SITE_forum.t1 () inherits (SITE.t);

Oleg
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Matthias Loitsch wrote:

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> First of all, hi. I'm new to this mailing list.
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> I searched this on the net, but I didn't get any usable answers...
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> So here's my problem:
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> I have 2 schemas. One is called SITE, one SITE_forum.
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> What I wanted, is to separate the forum from the whole Site db, so I can
> put them on different servers if I encounter performance problems or
> anything.
> So I started the SITE_forum schema, made all my tables, and realized,
> that I don't want to create the table users in the schema SITE_forum,
> because I want to use the exact same users than in the schema SITE.
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> One possibility would be, to create 2 identic tables on both schemas,
> but that really really is not what I'd like to do.
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> So I thought I could make a foreign key on a different Schema (db), and
> use the same table....
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> And well, thats where I started to search if this is possible ... and,
> in fact my main question is: Is this a good idea?
> I have no idea if this will be fast enough, or if I will have lots of
> problems afterward....
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> Could anyone help me with this ?
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>
> Thanks in advance,
> Matthias Loitsch
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Regards,
Oleg
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