From: | Ian Barwick <ian(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | "Zheng, Wendy" <wendy(dot)zheng(at)emc(dot)com>, "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: The quickest way to migrate database within the same cluster |
Date: | 2015-01-04 07:12:51 |
Message-ID: | 54A8E7F3.8080307@2ndquadrant.com |
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On 15/01/04 15:52, Zheng, Wendy wrote:
> Hi PgSql experts,
>
> I’m working on a task to move tables from on database to another within
> the same cluster and same server. I try the pg_dump and pg_restore commands
> (with –Fc option), and notice that it costs around half an hour which is
> not acceptable. Then I try to move the data files directly. I create the
> same tables in the new DB, find out the directory stores the data file
> and search for the data files by the table name, then move the corresponding
> data file in the old DB to the new one. This is very quick, and looks like the
> DB still works. But I have a concern that whether there will any other problem
> if I doing this?
Yes, you'll experience massive data corruption. You can't just manually copy
data files around, even though it might seem to work.
> Another workaround is to access the old DB in the new DB with dblink
> (I created a view with dblink and use it as if the view as if the table
> is in the new DB). But we soon notice that even though we specify the
> criteria in the select command, dblink will still retrieve all the
> records first, and then apply the search criteria. This brings poor
> performance. Do you have any better idea how can I handle this?
Which PostgreSQL version are you using? If 9.3 or later you can use
a foreign data wrapper (postgres_fdw) to access data in another database
(including on the same cluster).
Regards
Ian Barwick
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