Re: Design suggestion of multiple databases vs multiple schemas within the database

From: "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Swaminathan Saikumar" <swami(at)giveexam(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Design suggestion of multiple databases vs multiple schemas within the database
Date: 2008-03-02 20:12:39
Message-ID: dcc563d10803021212t89b03b8p38b47d27da4de019@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Swaminathan Saikumar <swami(at)giveexam(dot)com> wrote:
> I am building a web app with Postgres, that also uses Drupal with Postgres.
> I am new to all these frameworks.
>
> There is some data that I'll need to cross-reference between the two
> databases.
>
> Can I do a cross-schema/catalog join? Or is a cross-database join better?
> Are there any gotchas for the cross-schema/cross-database joins that I need
> to be aware of? Such as when using Shared hosting?

pgsql doesn't really support cross db queries, so you should use
multiple schemas

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