Subject: Re: Queries across multiple database
From: Rod Taylor <pg@rbt.ca>
To: Garth Thompson <garth@opsource.net>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
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Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 19:19:12 -0400
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On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 18:54, Garth Thompson wrote:
> I am in the process of migrating the databases for an application from mysql
> to postgres.  The application is uses several different databases.  From
> what I have read, postgres still does not support queries across multiple
> databases.  If this is still true, does anyone have any tricks to get around
> this?  I'm sure this is a common problem for people migrating from mysql.
> The obvious answer is to just migrate everything into one larger postgres
> database, but I would like to avoid this if possible - many a line of could
> would need to be touched if this was done.

In this case, a PostgreSQL Schema is essentially the same as a MySQL
Database.

Use one database, and multiple schemas.