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

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Changing the concept of a DATABASE
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Msg-id 4FBBCE48.2050806@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: Changing the concept of a DATABASE  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Changing the concept of a DATABASE
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> If I have a customer with 1 database per user, how do they run a query
> against 100 user tables? It would require 100 connections to the
> database. Doing that would require roughly x100 the planning time and
> x100 the connection delay. Larger SQL statements pass their results
> between executor steps using libpq rather than direct calls.

Why is this hypothetical customer using separate databases?  This really
seems like a case of "doctor, it hurts when I do this".

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com


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