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[Gavin Panella <gavin.panella@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 17 November 2010 12:39, Ian Booth <ian.m.booth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> This isn't of huge importance compared to the other things already
> covered, but I'd love Launchpad to play nicer with Postgres in that
> several instances of Launchpad as well as other apps could co-exist on
> top of the one Postgres instance. This could be done by placing the
> tables etc for each Launchpad instance into a different Postgres schema.
> Thus "make schema" would trash that particular Launchpad's schema and
> leave everything else hosted inside the Postgres instance alone. One
> benefit - it would be much more convenient to have develop on branches
> derived from devel and db-devel and switch between them without losing
> data. This is more of a development task rather than a TA thing but I'd
> thought I mention it anyway.

Fwiw, you can do something like this already with multiple clusters:

  https://lists.launchpad.net/launchpad-dev/msg04407.html

Gavin.