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From: Jorge Godoy <jgodoy@gmail.com>
To: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
Cc: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Multiple DB join
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:01:03 -0300
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Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> writes:

> And why multiple databases instead of multiple schemas within the
> same database?  Or even all data in the same schema?  Is there a
> reason for the segregation?

I can think that spreading processing requirements should be one.  And
distributing load another one.  Disk space can be solved with new disks and
tablespaces, but we can't yet distribute the load through several servers
without partitioning.

-- 
Jorge Godoy      <jgodoy@gmail.com>



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