set the default schema

am Mon, dem 20.11.2006, um 19:59:17 +0100 mailte Alain Roger folgendes:

Hi,

I do not own my database. in fact, it is stored on my web hoster server.
therefore i would like to know how can i setup the default SCHEMA in order to
no have to write in all my functions, queries or procedures, the following
thing :

alter user <your_user> set search_path=<insert your favorite search_path here);

Andreas
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On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 12:59, Alain Roger wrote:

Hi,

I do not own my database. in fact, it is stored on my web hoster
server.

You must be from oracle land. Welcome to PostgreSQL land. It's a
little different. (as visions of alter session set current_schema swim
through my head). In PostgreSQL, schemas are NOT tied to users. They
are a free form thing. Oracle's a little easier, PostgreSQL is a little
more versatile.

You can do it a few ways.

Let's say you create a new schema test:

create schema test;

and you'd like people who haven't set any parameters to "Drop into" it
when they connect:

alter database test set search_path='test';

poof. joe user will now drop on top of the test schema. But wait,
there's more! you can have more than one. So, you can do this:

alter database test set search_path='test','public';

Add as many other schemas as you'd like.

Then, as an added bonus, you, the user, can override all that:

alter user smarlowe set search_path = 'abc','public';

Now, all the things that smarlowe creates will go into abc, but using a
table name will search first the abc schema for a match, then the public
schema.

Pretty neat stuff. Read more here:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/ddl-schemas.html

tres cool.