Re: Suggestion for Easier Cross-Database Query Handling in PostgreSQL

On Fri, May 15, 2026 at 7:22 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com> writes:
> > Why doesn't the shared OID space make cross-database queries possible?
>
> OIDs are not guaranteed unique across databases.


Ah.


> But totally independently of implementation considerations, it's not
> apparent to me that this would be a good idea.  As Frank mentioned,
> Postgres has always treated databases as isolation boundaries.
> Changing that would probably break a lot of peoples' installation
> designs.
>

Even now, roles need privilege to access databases.

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