app table names

[Jamie Kahgee <jamie.kahgee@xxxxxxxxx>]

My company has a handful of apps that we deploy in the websites we build.  Recently a very old app needed to be included along side a newer app and there was a conflict w/ a duplicate table name needed to be used by both apps.

We are now in the process of updating an old app and there will be some DB updates.  I'm curious what people consider best practice (or how do you do it)  to help ensure these name collisions don't happen.

I've looked at schema's but not sure if thats the right path we want to take.  As the documentation prescribes, I don't want to "wire" a particular schema name into an application and if I add schema's to the user search path how would it know which table I was referring to if two schema's have the same table name.  although, maybe I'm reading to much into this.

Any insights or words of wisdom would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Jamie K.