I generally would separate different apps into different schema.
doug
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From: pgsql-sql-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-sql-ow...@postgresql.org] On
Behalf Of David Johnston
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 8:20 AM
To: Charlie
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] Schema partitioning
On Sep 1, 2011, at 14:13, Charlie wrote:
> Could I get feedback from the community on schema partitioning?
>
> I'm doing maintenance on my ddl and I'm noticing that my tables are all in 1
> schema, but they have prefixes on their names like table_app1_sometable,
> table_app1_secondtable, table_app2_anothertable,
> table_priviledged_restrictedtable1, etc. The table_app1 tables seem to want
> to go in their own schema "app1", etc, and drop the prefixes. Except they'll
> still be there, as in app1.sometable.
>
> Is this just style? Or are there concrete benefits to partitioning?
>
>
Mostly style but some ease-of-use when it comes to permissions as well. It's
really no different than why you'd use sub-directories in your OS instead of
putting everything in C/root.
It does give you namespaces features as well (I.e., duplicate names but in
different contexts).
David J.
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