Re: Refer to another database

On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 04:41:51AM +0200, Andreas Kalsch wrote:
> How is it possible to refer to another database, like:
>
> select * from otherDatabase.nodes;

Generally, you use schemas for this.  Schemas are just namespaces
inside the one database.

> I have read something about schemas and I have simply created an own
> schema for every database with the same name, but it still does not
> work. Is there anything plain and simple?

SELECT f.one, b.two
FROM
    one_schema.foo AS f
JOIN
    other_schema.bar AS b
ON (f.id = b.foo_id)
WHERE...

Cheers,
David.
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