Sergey Konoplev escribió: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Alvaro Herrera > <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > Eh. Why can't you just do something like > > > > WITH moved AS ( > > DELETE FROM src WHERE .. > > RETURNING * > > ) INSERT INTO dst SELECT * FROM moved; > > Avero, I think it could be cheaper to do this like it is shown below, correct? > > psql dbname -c 'copy src to stdout' | \ > psql dbname -c 'copy dst from stdin; truncate src;' Yes, if you can get rid of the old records by removing or emptying a partition (or de-inheriting it, as suggested elsewhere in the thread), that's better than DELETE because that way you don't create dead rows to vacuum later. -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
