How to set table schema at table name with Cake? - postgresql

Question

PostgreSQL, Oracle and many other DBMS's use SCHEMA, so, the table name is
schema_name.table_name
But CakePHP manuals not say anithing about this. What about Model, View and Controller names in the CakePHP defaults? I can use a solution like prefix, that is, where the same schema name will be used at all database operations.
PS1: please not to be confused with method Modelschema, and questions about accessing this method.
PS2: the Bill's 2006 solution is not the better one, because is not updated (I am using CakePHP2) and is not a "official cakePHP solution".
PS3: database.php have some schema attribute? What the link to CakePHP documentation?

Answer 1

Good news for me, there are CakePHP 2.0 documentation about SQL-Schema... No other documentation or examples, but a starting point...

Answer 2

In CakePHP you must define more database config.
In CakePHP 2:
set the 'schema' param to your config
create new configs for all of your schema
use the right schema in your models
For example, database conf:
public $default = array(
'datasource' => 'Database/Postgres',
'persistent' => false,
'host' => 'localhost',
'login' => 'my_db_user',
'password' => 'my_db_passw',
'database' => 'my_project_db',
'prefix' => '',
'encoding' => 'utf8',
'schema' => 'postgres'
);
public $other_schema = array(
'datasource' => 'Database/Postgres',
'persistent' => false,
'host' => 'localhost',
'login' => 'my_db_user',
'password' => 'my_db_passw',
'database' => 'my_project_db',
'prefix' => '',
'encoding' => 'utf8',
'schema' => 'other_schema'
);
If you want to use it in a model:
class AppModel extends AppModel {
public $useDbConfig = 'other_schema';
}
In CakePHP3 is the same way, just there the database is config/app.php and you must use
use Cake\Datasource\ConnectionManager;
$connection = ConnectionManager::get('default');