Message-ID: <20030109022016.40972.qmail@web12704.mail.yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 18:20:16 -0800 (PST)
From: chester c young <chestercyoung@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: What benefits can I expect from schemas ?
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
In-Reply-To: <200301081726.h08HQmR01291@candle.pha.pa.us>
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> > I could not find much documentation about SQL 92 schemas that
> > 7.3 now supports. I understood it was a structure to group various
> > objects, which allows faster privilege management, namespaces
> > definition.
> > Besides that, I don't see any advantages. I'd be glad if someone
> > could point them out for me, or give doc links.
> 
> That's pretty much it.  You can give each user their own namespace so
> they can all create tables with the same name, or put applications in
> their own namespace so they don't conflict with other applications. 
> You can also control object creation easier by restricting privs on
> the > public namespace.

Can you copy by schema?

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