From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Tiaan Wessels <tiaan@netsys.co.za>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: CREATE TABLES AS looses constraints
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 13:48:01 -0700
Message-ID: <200305291348.01440.josh@agliodbs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030529163556.7EBDE925D04@developer.postgresql.org>
References: <20030529163556.7EBDE925D04@developer.postgresql.org>
Tiaan,
> It seems as if a CREATE TABLES AS does not duplicate the table constraints.
> How can I enforce this. I need the fastest possible way to make an exact
copy
> of a table. This is to support the administrative mechanism in an app where
> changes are made to a mirrored copy of a set of tables first and when happy,
> these are copied to the operational tables.
I suggest using pg_dump, on the command line:
pg_dump -T some_table my_database > some_table.pgdump;
psql -U database_owner my_database_mirror < some_table.pgdump;
This will copy triggers and indexes as well.
--
-Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
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