Re: Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL vs. MySQL - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL vs. MySQL
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Msg-id 200007101852.OAA00269@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL vs. MySQL  (Mike Mascari <mascarm@mascari.com>)
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> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > 
> > > And of course the major problem with *that* is how do you get the
> > > connection request to arrive at a backend that's been prestarted in
> > > the right database?  If you don't commit to a database then there's
> > > not a whole lot of prestarting that can be done.
> > >
> > > It occurs to me that this'd get a whole lot more feasible if one
> > > postmaster == one database, which is something we *could* do if we
> > > implemented schemas.  Hiroshi's been arguing that the current hard
> > > separation between databases in an installation should be done away
> > > with in favor of schemas, and I'm starting to see his point...
> > 
> > This is interesting.  You believe schema's would allow a pool of
> > backends to connect to any database?  That would clearly be a win.
> 
> I'm just curious, but did a consensus ever develop on schemas? It
> seemed that the schemas/tablespace thread just ran out of steam.
> For what its worth, I like the idea of:

You can find the entire thread in the current development tree in
doc/TODO.detail/tablespaces.

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