Hi, Adrian,


On Sat, Oct 15, 2022, 10:51 AM Adrian Klaver <adrian.kla...@aklaver.com>
wrote:

> On 10/15/22 08:20, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> > On 10/14/22 21:46, Igor Korot wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Making catalog current means switching between DBs.
> >> Remember initially I connected to (finance) DB, which made the
> >> (finance) catalog
> >> current.
> >> Then I "opened a second connection" to (finance_2021), which made
> >> that current catalog and so that select would give me all tables from
> >> (finance_2021).
> >
> > No you didn't.
> >
> > Rough outline of what happens:
> >
> > 1) You connected to the database finance.
> > 2) While in the finance database you queried the foreign tables that are
> > linked to finance_2021.
> > 3) The queries made connections the  to finance_2021 for the purposes of
> > making the data visible in the foreign tables in finance.
> > 4) The client you did this did not 'leave' the finance database, so the
>                              ^
>                              in
> > only information_schema you have access to is in the finance database.
>

So any and all operations/queries performed before, during or after that
will be done on (finance) catalog), because this is the "main" connection,
right?

Thank you.

>
> >>
> >> I hope now its clearer.
> >>
> >> Thank you.
> >>
> >>>
> >>> David J.
> >>
> >>
> >
>
> --
> Adrian Klaver
> adrian.kla...@aklaver.com
>
>

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