Matthew Seaborn wrote: > Given the situation where a user connecting to the database > needs access to two separate schemas: the primary schema > which contains the data they will be updating and a second > schema which contains read-only reference data, used by many > users, that will be using in joins on queries. > > I don't want to have to use fully qualified names (I am > migrating code from Oracle which uses synonyms), so what is > the best way (in both performance and reliability) to refer > to the tables; Search Path or Synonyms? There are no synonyms in PostgreSQL: synonyms are Oracle's way of search_path (though more selective). You excluded the best solution, namely to qualify the objects. If your user should be able to access *all* tables in both schemas unqualified and there are no name collisions between objects in the schemas, I would recommend search_path. Otherwise, use views. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
