Quoting Mike Nolan <nolan@gw.tssi.com>:
> > Ok, thats for the response. I take it a PG namespace = Oracle table space
> (or
> > namespace is simply the generic term). I can see some definite benefits
> > especially with disk i/o throughput though I thought database partitioning
> (I
> > think that is what its called) would provide the same thing.
>
> I could be wrong, but I think 'namespace' is an existing concept in
> PG that is a way of organizing objects into logical groups.
>
> As I recall, the group working on it decided to call it a 'directory' rather
>
> than a 'tablespace', because of concerns that the latter word might be
> proprietary to Oracle. I've lost touch with the rest of the members in
> that group, though, since the computer I was using for PG development
> purposes got zapped by lightning in August.
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I think that is what I was getting confused with before- schemas...
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/catalog-pg-namespace.html
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