Phil -
My take on this can be found at:
http://www.postgresql.org/mhonarc/pgsql-hackers/2000-03/msg00137.html
Peter agrees with me (from my personal archive: the postgresql.org one
has holes in it!):
http://cooker.ir.rice.edu/postgresql/msg19913.html
There was another discussion, a little earlier, over in GENERAL, I think.
What seems to happen to all these dicussions is they wander off into
tablespaces, and dataspaces, and what have you, instead of sticking to
just SCHEMA. ;-)
Ross
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 02:53:37AM +1100, Philip Warner wrote:
> At 10:36 9/11/00 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au> writes:
> >> Presumably this was raised before, but I'd love to see the consensus view,
> >> if it is documented.
> >
>
> I think the hierarchy goes:
>
> Environment->Catalog->Schema
SQL92 talks of a 'cluster of catalogs'
Ross
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