From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200301090226.h092QSj00596@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: What benefits can I expect from schemas ?
In-Reply-To: <20030109022016.40972.qmail@web12704.mail.yahoo.com>
To: chester c young <chestercyoung@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 21:26:28 -0500 (EST)
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
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chester c young wrote:
> > > 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?

No.

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