Re: [siesta-dev] prefixing tablenames?

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* at 15/10 10:57 +0100 David Cantrell said:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 10:07:38PM -0700, Bowen Dwelle wrote:
> > I may well be mistaken, but offhand I don't see any easy way to add a 
> > prefix to Siesta's table names (i.e. siesta_*). Same thing for 
> > Email::Store. This is a pretty basic requirement for multiple apps to 
> > co-exist in a single database.
> 
> Why on earth do you want multiple applications to share a database?  Any
> RDBMS worth the name can support multiple databases.

If, say, you have the sort of web hosting where you are only allowed
one database? Or maybe if the crazed fools in marketing want
everything to use the same database to make mining all that data for
their evil purposes easier.

Option a seems most likely though. 

struan

• David Cantrell 10:57 on 15 Oct 2004
  • Struan Donald 11:00 on 15 Oct 2004
    • David Cantrell 11:05 on 15 Oct 2004
    • Bowen Dwelle 16:19 on 15 Oct 2004

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