Re: Multiple logical databases - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Multiple logical databases
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Msg-id 15666.1138893544@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Multiple logical databases  ("Mark Woodward" <pgsql@mohawksoft.com>)
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"Mark Woodward" <pgsql@mohawksoft.com> writes:
> One of the problems with the current PostgreSQL design is that all the
> databases operated by one postmaster server process are interlinked at
> some core level. They all share the same system tables. If one database
> becomes corrupt because of disk or something, the whole cluster is
> affected.

This problem is not as large as you paint it, because most of the system
catalogs are *not* shared.

> Does anyone see this as useful?

No...
        regards, tom lane


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