From: Casey T. Deccio <ctdecci@sandia.gov>
To: Markus Schaber <schabi@logix-tt.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Building a database from a flat file
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:37:08 -0800
Message-ID: <1109875028.12428.98.camel@boomerang.ran.sandia.gov> (raw)
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References: <1109808921.12430.75.camel@boomerang.ran.sandia.gov>
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On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 08:28 -0700, Markus Schaber wrote:
> - Create the new date in another schema, and then simply rename those
> two schemas for "switch over"
>
This worked very well. I created another schema ("build") and populated
the tables within build. Then:
BEGIN;
ALTER SCHEMA public RENAME TO public_old;
ALTER SCHEMA build RENAME TO public;
COMMIT;
/* remove data from tables in build schema... */
It was very quick and seamless.
Question: is there an "easy" way to duplicate an existing schema
(tables, functions, sequences, etc.)--not the data; only the schema?
This way, I would only need to modify one schema (public) to make
changes, and the build schema could be created each time as a duplicate
of the public schema. Maintenance would be much simpler.
> - Create the new data in differently named tables, and then simply
> rename all the old and new tables for "switch over".
>
This probably would work too, but there may be problems with foreign
keys in renaming the tables one at a time (unless deferrable is used).
To avoid any mess, the previous one works well.
> - Have two different set of tables (maybe two identical schemas), and
> let your application work on a set of views. Then you can change the
> views via "create or replace view" for switch over.
>
> Markus
Casey
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