drop view and recreate - for sync

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Sydney Puente <sydneypue...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> This data will be accessed a couple of times a second, and I have a cunning
> plan to have a view that points to the initial dataload, and then load up
> the new data into a shadow table, drop the view and then recreate it
> pointing to the shadow table ( which will then no longer be the shadow).

If it is only 100k rows, then within a transaction: 1) delete all
rows, 2) insert all new rows, 3) commit, 4) vacuum.

don't try to compact the table with cluster or vacuum full since
you'll just re-expand it on the next synchronization.

There should be no blocking of your readaccess.  This assumes your
copy is read-only, which you
 imply.
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Ah I see what you mean - thanks very much that is v helpful!
Yes the copy will be read-only.
Will have 3 tables of data, being read (readonly) and in the background 
Will have 3 shadow tables populated from an unreliable db over an unreliable network.
not quite sure how I can "insert all the rows" in sql.
have postgres 8.03 BTW.

Syd