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From: John McCawley <nospam@hardgeus.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: What is the max number of database I can create in
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 07:45:10 -0600
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>> However, what is the max number of database I can create before  
>> performance goes down?
>
I know I'm not directly answering your question, but you might want to 
consider why you're splitting things up into different logical 
databases.  If security is a big concern, you can create different 
database users that own the different departments' tables, and each of 
your apps can login as the corresponding users. 

Everyone loves reports.  Once you've got data in your database, people 
will ask for a billion reports...Whether or not they know it now, most 
likely they're going to want reports that cross the department 
boundaries (gross revenue, employee listings etc.) and that will be very 
difficult if you have multiple databases.





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