Re: many schemas or many databases

hi,

i would prefer many schemas. advantages:
- one backup/restore for all (or selective)
- one connection pool
- simple access to all schemas

regards
thomas

Am 08.02.2011 09:30, schrieb Szymon Guz:
> Hi,
> is there any noticeable difference between a cluster with many databases and
> a database with many schemas?
>
> I've got a quite huge database on Oracle with about 400 logically disjoint
> schemas.
> I could import that into PostgreSQL as many different databases, or as one
> database with many schemas.
>
> From the application point of view it could be easier to have different
> databases, as for now the applications log in into different schemas, so
> this behavior wouldn't change.
>
> Do you see any drawbacks of any of the solutions?
>
>
> regards
> Szymon
>