Re: Changing the concept of a DATABASE - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Susanne Ebrecht
Subject Re: Changing the concept of a DATABASE
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Msg-id 4FBBB291.3090401@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Re: Changing the concept of a DATABASE  ("Albe Laurenz" <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at>)
Responses Re: Changing the concept of a DATABASE
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Am 22.05.2012 15:27, schrieb Albe Laurenz:
> If you need different applications to routinely access each other's
> tables, why not assign them to different schemas in one database?

The use case in my mind for accessing more databases is when you want to
access stuff different languages.

You only can set encoding / LC_Collate per database not per schema.

So for different languages you might need different databases to do 
correct sorting / indexing.

Susanne

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