Re: Best Approach for Swapping a Table with its Copy

From: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Marcelo Fernandes <marcefern7(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>, Dominique Devienne <ddevienne(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Best Approach for Swapping a Table with its Copy
Date: 2025-02-16 23:48:43
Message-ID: CAKAnmm+aGX9_HMbJQrGR8nwFbd60x4NqfexnYi22-wtrCT-cXw@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM Marcelo Fernandes <marcefern7(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> - The foreign keys are not being updated to point to the new table.
>

You started out okay with your test script, but the pg_depend bit needs
work. I would recommend examining that table closely until you have a
really good understanding of how it works - both on the objid and refobjid
side. Create and modify tables and see how the pg_depend entries change.
Hint: Try it with and without foreign keys.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/catalog-pg-depend.html

> - pg_repack seems to update relcache entries. I am not sure how to do that
> with SQL.

Yes, as I mentioned upthread, the safest thing will probably be a restart.

Cheers,
Greg

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