My understanding of "schema" that I discovered in 7.3 (I don't think they were available before) is that you can have two tables with the same name if they are in different schemas.
I have done a google search, as well as archive search but pg_dump and pg_dumpall are broken if a database contains schemas. First of all if there are two tables with the same name in different schemas pg_dump only dumps out one table. There is no way to dump other tables and I have checked pg_dump man page Restoring a pg_dumpall is now a nightmare because I had as superuser # create schema test authorization httpd on a database not owned by database owner. And it works merrily until the time to dump and restore. pg_dumpall answers to above create authorization is \connect - httpd create schema test Hell breaks lose with that! Because httpd cannot create schema on a database that it does not own. Why couldn't pg_dumpall does create schema test authorization httpd as superuser when the schema was created in that fashion? I really don't think anyone is going to pay attention to this rant since these list does not like/answer anonymous posts but I have to post just so some poor soul might find it in the archive and be warned. My current versions are 7.3.2 and 7.3.3 and I have been using posgres since 7.1 and consider myself experienced with postgres Schemas are the best thing since slice breads but the baker decided to poison the bread. Nice! Thanks __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
