Le 2005 10 02 14:36, David Fetter a ecrit: > On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 09:37:49PM -0700, Cosmopo wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I was using many years ago Sybase that was able then to query > > several tables that could be located in more than one database... I > > know that Postgresql did not at the time have this capability. > > > > Does the new version 8.0.x ofter this feature? We need to create > > several databases based on our customer's specs... but we need our > > own customer, permission, history, etc database. We want to be able > > to query 2 database that would have share customer's ID and other > > info. > > I don't know exactly what you mean by tables that can be located in > more than one database, as "database" has several definitions, but > PostgreSQL has "schemas" which are essentially namespaces inside the > same database, and you can query across schemas without extra add-ons. Hello, thank you... Well, when I do a "createdb owndb1" and "createdb customerdb2" I want to put a table "customer" in the owndb1 with user name, account specification that will be valuable for all our customers... I would like to make a query like this: select owndb1.customer.co_name,owndb1.customer.passwd,customerdb2.event.title,... from owndb1.customer,customerdb2.event where customerdb2.info.user_id = owndb1.customer.user_id; In Sybase I used to be able to query accross 2 databases since we usualy made a database per customer but account, permissions info, etc for those customers where in a central database. >From your response, I guess this is not possible even many years later. Some data like cities, regions, countries can be made once and put in a "general purpose database"... that another database (entire independant data structure) can reuse some basic info on geographic for example... If USA is county_id 27 in one database, why not simply put a field like country_id in a table of another database and use this info with a simple query... Thanks! -- Mark ~~~~ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq