Re: [GENERAL] Unloading a table consistently

[Christophe]

On May 3, 2008, at 9:29 PM, Patrick TJ McPhee wrote:

How about something along the lines of

BEGIN;
ALTER TABLE log RENAME to log_old;
CREATE TABLE log(...);
COMMIT;

BEGIN;
LOCK table log_old;
COPY log_old TO 'filename-path';
DROP TABLE log_old;
COMMIT;

I believe this will keep the writers writing while keeping the efficiency

of truncating.

Brilliant.

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