Re: COPY example for partial tables

Why the vacuum? Seems a bit sever to do a vacuum of an entire database
just because you created a temp table.

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 04:02:17PM -0700, David Fetter wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Please find enclosed a patch (should work for 7.3 and up) that
> illustrates a workaround for using COPY on parts of tables using
> temporary tables.  It's helped me, and it seems popular via a very
> brief and un-scientific poll.
>
> Cheers,
> D
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> Index: doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml
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> RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml,v
> retrieving revision 1.67
> diff -c -r1.67 copy.sgml
> *** doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml    5 Sep 2005 14:44:05 -0000    1.67
> --- doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml    11 Oct 2005 23:00:40 -0000
> ***************
> *** 709,714 ****
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>     </para>
>
>     <para>
> +    To copy just the countries whose names start with 'A' into a file
> +    using a temporary table which goes away at the end of the
> +    transaction.  <note><para>This workaround will probably not be
> +    needed for <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> 8.2 and
> +     later.</para></note>
> + <programlisting>
> + BEGIN;
> + CREATE TEMP TABLE a_list_COUNTRIES AS
> +     SELECT * FROM country WHERE country_name LIKE 'A%';
> + COPY a_list_countries TO '/usr1/proj/bray/sql/a_list_countries.copy';
> + ROLLBACK;
> + VACUUM;
> + </programlisting>
> +   </para>
> +
> +   <para>
>      Here is a sample of data suitable for copying into a table from
>      <literal>STDIN</literal>:
>   <programlisting>

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