Re: copying data between tables

Le ven 27/02/2004 à 03:40, Tsirkin Evgeny a écrit :
> Hi all!
> I have the following task :
> I have some tables edited (insert/update) by users.
> I should create a file (in whatever format) containing
> changes of the last day,every day.What I have currently
> is :
> I have two tables of the same structer ,every day i :
>
> select * from newtable
> except
> select * from oldtable
>
> And then format the data with perl script.After that ,i
> am copying the data from the new table to the old table .It
> works pretty good except that the copying is VERY slow:
> I use :
> insert into old from (select * from newtable);
>
> Is there any more afficient way to do what i need ,
> that somebody already use?
> Is there any more afficient way to copy data between
> tables?
> I know that i can use COPY to copy files from
> and to files ,can it be used here?
>
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If I had to do this, I would use triggers which, on every INSERT/UPDATE
by users, would insert the new item + timestamp or date in a new table.

I hope this will help you.