Re: Moving large table between servers: logical replication or postgres_fdw

On 12/05/2018 12:05 AM, Rob Sargent wrote:
>> On Dec 4, 2018, at 8:14 PM, Rhys A.D. Stewart <rhys(dot)stewart(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> Greetings Folks,
>>
>> I have a relatively large table (100m rows) that I want to move to a
>> new box with more resources. The table isn't doing anything...i.e its
>> not being updated or read from. Which approach would be faster to move
>> the data over:
>>
>> a). Use pg_fdw and do "create local_table as select * from foreign_table".
>> b). setup logical replication between the two servers.
> Can’t help but think an unread unwritten table goes to quietly to /dev/null :)

Sigh, no.

The legal and audit teams, and the customer, would be most upset if the data
you're legally obligated to keep for 7 years suddenly disappears.

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