On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 16:19 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Without some means of doing a clone of the table in a single command,
> you've eliminated half the scripting work, but not helped at all with
> the other half.
I'm not trying to eliminate scripting work, I'm trying to minimise the
lock window with a reliable and smooth atomic switcheroo.
> Actually, you know what would be ideal?
>
> REPLACE TABLE old_table WITH SELECT ...
>
> Give it some thought ...
I have; the above would hold the lock window open while the SELECT runs
and that is explicitly something we are trying to avoid.
Good creative input though, thank you.
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