Jeff Davis writes: >The disadvantages: one more: if you actually have m tables and n servers, you have m x n tables in reality, which is pretty miserable scaling behavior. i should think that rules, triggers, and embedded procedures would explode in complexity rather rapidly. i know i wouldn't want to administer one of these if there were a lot of sites. >I hope this is helpful. Let me know if there's some reason my plan won't >work. look at the solution in pgreplicator. site ids are embedded in the id columns in the tables, so there only m tables, and a bit less insanity. richard (dropping out of this conversation, i'm unsubscribing while on vacation) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org