> You can have the same table definition, within the same database, defined multiple times (each in a different schema) and each holding different data.
So in this respect, each table within a schema indeed already acts like a "shard" of the overall table
Is this enforced? Like, if I create a table "messages" in schema A and a table "messages" in table B, must they have the same columns/column types, or is that just convention
> You can have the same table definition, within the same database, defined multiple times (each in a different schema) and each holding different data.
So in this respect, each table within a schema indeed already acts like a "shard" of the overall table
Is this enforced? Like, if I create a table "messages" in schema A and a table "messages" in table B, must they have the same columns/column types, or is that just convention