Hello, Le 29/07/09 16:44, Bob Gobeille a écrit : > > On Jul 29, 2009, at 8:26 AM, nha wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Le 29/07/09 15:02, Jasen Betts a écrit : >>> On 2009-07-27, Bob Gobeille <bob.gobeille@xxxxxx> wrote: >>>> I would like to combine multiple databases (same schema) into one >>>> master db. Does anyone know how I can reconcile all my primary and >>>> foreign keys to maintain referential integrity. >>> >>> prefix them all with something that's unique to their source database. >>> >>> easy to say, hard to do. >>> >> >> A process (and solution) may be different whether: [...cases...] > > In my immediate case, I'm simply combining 7 global databases into a > single master. > > Eventually, I would like to allow our (fossology.org) users to subscribe > to data in other databases. That is, allow > users to do periodic one-way batch updates from other servers. > > Bob In such a purpose (where asynchronous updates seem reasonable), prefixing (as suggested by Jasen Bett) or adding server-based column to current keys (as you mention thereafter) look like handy solutions. Good plan. Regards. -- nha / Lyon / France. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
