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Beyond just the admin advanatges, the utilities could be modified to
handle a root server that redirects to child servers. The psql program,
when handling a "\c" command, queries the root server to find the child
server and then connects to that.

libpq could also be modified to handle this without changing the
applications.

The child postmasters will query the root postmaster when a DB is created
and deleted to keep it up to date. Conflicts between two children can be
managed by either some sort of first come first serve or disallow creating
of a duplicate name, or some other method.

So, conn = connect("host=localhost dbname=mydb"); Will connect to the root
server, find the actual server, and then connect to it, completely hiding
the different physical databases, and creating one very large logical
install.

Perhaps this can even be written to include large scale clustering. Who
knows?