Dear Tom,
>
> Please keep in mind that I was replying to a poster who said "cross-db
> queries on the same server (meaning same postmaster, for our purposes)
> are trivial; why hasn't Postgres got them when everybody else does?"
My apologies for missing that context.
> Your above arguments are all good ones, but they presume a scenario that
> is much different and *MUCH* harder to implement than local "cross
> database" queries. My point is that schemas solve the same-server
> problems that the original poster was interested in. I did not say,
> nor mean, that there is no need for cross-server queries. But that is
> a different problem. Today we can only offer dblink; maybe someday
> SQL-MED.
Agreed. Thanks. --Bob
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