> > Or is that on the TODO for whenever foreign keys can be across databases? > I very seriously doubt that PG will *ever* support foreign keys across > databases.
No problem. I'm not that advanced of a user or admin to want it, I was just trying to peer into the crystal ball and try to anticipate future problems. :-) > The current development direction is not to improve communication across > databases, but to support schemas and improve privilege checking so that > users can more usefully be assigned separate schemas within a single > database. I think that multiple databases in a cluster will eventually > be used only for the cases where you *want* airtight separation between > two collections of data. Understood. > Hence, I'm not particularly concerned by complaints about lack of > cross-database functionality --- the folks who think they want that > actually want cross-schema operations, which will work fine in 7.3. Thank you for your time and comments. I feel a lot "safer" about these backups now. Regards, Andrew ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])