On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 13:54:05 +0200, Matthias Loitsch <m@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > So I thought I could make a foreign key on a different Schema (db), and > use the same table.... > > And well, thats where I started to search if this is possible ... and, > in fact my main question is: Is this a good idea? > I have no idea if this will be fast enough, or if I will have lots of > problems afterward.... > > Could anyone help me with this ? Schemas are just a name space, so using foreign keys accross schemas shouldn't be a problem. However, it you later put the contents of the schema on other server or even in another database, then you are going to need to make a copy of the data as you can't make foreign key references outside of the current database. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
