Re: Recreate big table

Gábriel,

You could use table inheritance, like table partitioning is explained in manual:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/ddl-partitioning.html

Kind regards,

Daniel Cristian

On 2/9/07, Gábriel Ákos <akos.gabriel@i-logic.hu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have a quite big table, which is heavily used by our online clients.
> The table has several indexes, but no other relation to other tables.
> We have an import process, which can fill/update this table.
> The full import takes 1 hour, and this is very long.
> We are thinking of doing the full import in another table and then just
> "swapping" the two tables.
> What will happen to our indexes? What will happen to our current
> transactions (only read) ? What will the user see? :)
> Should we recreate the indexes after the swap is done?
>
> Btw is there a good practice doing this kind of work?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Akos Gabriel
>
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