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From: "Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm@rice.edu>

To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] Re: [GENERAL] Queries across multiple databases ?(was: SELECT from a table in another database).

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In-Reply-To: <200105221131.f4MBVIc28574@candle.pha.pa.us>; from pgman@candle.pha.pa.us on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 07:31:18AM -0400

Status: ORr

Bruce -

Around the first of the year, I started playing around with a schema

implementation. As you may recall, my first crack at changing file storage

names about a year ago was motivated by the need to avoid collisions

once schema were available.

Anyway, now that Vadim has removed a lot of the internal dependence

on relname for keeping track of relations, using the new relfinenode

many places relname used to be used, it seems to me that adding a

parallel schemaname to all the data structures that use relname isn't

as cumbersome as Peter might think. I hadn't tackled the relcache yet:

perhaps concatenating the schemaname and relname to use as the hash key

is the way to go for that.

Unfortunately, all that code is now 4 months old, and on my machine

at home. I has started with the rangetable entries, because hacked the

parser to allow 'SELECT * FROM schemaname.tablename' was easier than

'select schemaname.tablename.fieldname FROM', since the dot function

calling convention isn't allowed in the range list, while it is in the

target list.

I seem to recall tripping up on the query plan printer, of all things,

before other, paying work pushed it aside. I'll see if I can update that

code to the current tree, and send you something, if you'd like.

Ross

On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 07:31:18AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > > I'm not sure whether it is quite the way to do it, but I'd have a better

> > > time with things if I could span databases in a single request. Are

> > > there theoretical problems with spanning databases in a single query? Is

> > > it a feature of bad database design & implementation?

> >

> > I think the developers are planning full schema support for the relatively

> > near future (possibly even 7.2, but check the archives and see what's been

> > said). Although it looks easy to access a table from another database,

> > things can rapidly become more complicated as you start having to deal with

> > transactions, triggers, rules, constraints...

>

> Schema is on my radar screen for 7.2. I am waiting to do some research

> in what needs to be done, but my initial idea is to use the system cache

> to do namespace mapping, just like is done now for temp tables.

>

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