Re: Building a database from a flat file

Hi, Casey,

Casey T. Deccio schrieb:

> There is more than one problem with this, but the largest is that I
> would like to perform this whole database rebuild within one
> transaction, so other processes that need to access the database can do
> so without noticing the disturbance. However, performing this set of
> events (besides populating the temporary table) within a single
> transaction takes a long time--over an hour in some cases.
>
> What are some suggestions to help improve performance with replacing one
> set of data in a schema with another?

- Create the new date in another schema, and then simply rename those
two schemas for "switch over"

- Create the new data in differently named tables, and then simply
rename all the old and new tables for "switch over".

- Have two different set of tables (maybe two identical schemas), and
let your application work on a set of views. Then you can change the
views via "create or replace view" for switch over.

Markus

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