I have just read this explaining about how to structure data and functions
within postgresql
http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2010/09/postgis-back-up-restore.html
...The public schema is where the PostGIS functions and system tables get
installed, so if you dump that schema you get all those
Robert,
You can get as complex as you like, but one great use of schemas (I think) has
been to manage backing up data - especially over the internet, another is to
manage user access at a more granular level.
if you put your static data (ie background maps) into one schema, then when
dumping