Hi, Achilleus, Achilleus Mantzios wrote: > Now i am thinking of restructuring the whole architecture as: > - Create one EAR app for every mgmt company > - Create one DB USER for every mgmg company > - Create one SCHEMA (same as the USER) for every mgmt company > (mgmtcompany1,mgmtcompany2,etc...) We're doing a very similar thing here for one of our legacy apps, which luckily does not know anything about schemas, and so the search_path trick does work. However, for most "global" tables we have views with insert/update/ delete rules in the specific schemas, and such shield the application from directly accessing the global data. We even need to mere local and global data this way in some cases. It is ugly, but it works fine and is manageable. HTH, Markus -- Markus Schaber | Logical Tracking&Tracing International AG Dipl. Inf. | Software Development GIS Fight against software patents in EU! www.ffii.org www.nosoftwarepatents.org