On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 10:44 AM Mark Phillips <mark.phillips@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > When I worked for an Oracle shop, the dba set up individual “schemas” for each developer. That allowed us a database instance of our own for experiments, including modifying stored procedures and such, without the risk of negative impact on other developers or modifying the stable dev-test and QA databases. > > I am wondering how to accomplish a similar arrangement in an postgres cluster. I recommend leveraging the fact that PostgreSQL lacks per-instance licensing fees and have each developer run (more or less) apt-get install postgresql on their personal development virtual machine David J.