From: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
To: ow <oneway_111@Yahoo.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Programatically switching database
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 21:18:03 -0500
Message-ID: <3FB6DE5B.1020000@Yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031116015008.76880.qmail@web21402.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <20031116015008.76880.qmail@web21402.mail.yahoo.com>
ow wrote:
> --- ow <oneway_111@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> How? The doc only mentions db: pg_dump [option...] [dbname]
>>
>> Then, how would I lock users out from the schema while it's being loaded?
>
> Never mind how, I see there's "-n namespace" option in 7.4. But still, how
> would I lock users out from the schema while it's being loaded?
#!/bin/sh
(
echo "start transaction;"
cat $2
echo "commit transaction;"
) psql $1
then call it as
reload_in_transaction my_db my_namespace.dump
Since the whole dump will be restored inside of one transaction, nobody
will see it while it's reloading.
Jan
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