On 11/15/11 8:42 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> I need a pointer to the appropriate docs that show me how to specify a
> table in a different database.
>
> What I want is to CREATE TABLE <tablename> AS TABLE
> <otherdatabase><same_tablename>; but using a period (dot) to separate the
> source database and table name doesn't work. My searches of the 9.0.x
> docs
> have missed finding this information.
use Schemas instead of databases if this is what you need. Combined
with search_path, this will get you the exact results you're looking
for. in fact, the default search_path is $USER,public, so it will look
in a schema named after the current user before it looks in the default
schema...
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