| From: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Rob Sargent <robjsargent(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Fehrle, Brian" <bfehrle(at)comscore(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Thoughts on how to avoid a massive integer update. |
| Date: | 2020-05-08 20:37:36 |
| Message-ID: | CAKFQuwYh5qfo752TxAu6SrwXB5zAd-N_p00CKJZ8+fKm0WsWAw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 12:49 PM Rob Sargent <robjsargent(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Well as I said, I think you could add a column to info_table
>
> alter table info_table add orig_id int;
> update info_table set orig_id = info_table_sid;
>
> update info_table set info_table_sid = 456 where info_table_sid = 456;
>
>
huh?
alter table data_table *drop reference NOT SQL*
> alter table data_table *make reference to info_table.orig_id NOT SQL*
>
>
You don't seem to understand the requirement. The data_table integer value
must be changed - all you are doing is a convoluted column rename on the
table holding the PK half of the relationship.
David J.
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