On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, Mark Stosberg wrote: > On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Andreas Tille wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I want to solve the following problem: > > > > CREATE TABLE Ref ( Id int ) ; > > CREATE TABLE Import ( Id int, > > Other varchar(42), > > Flag int, > > Ts timestamp ) ; > > CREATE TABLE Data ( Id int, > > Other varchar(42) ) ; > larger problem. I get the sense that you have data you importing on a > regular basis from outside Postgres, and you want to check it before > it get moves into production, but I'm not exactly sure what's happening.
You are completely right. I just do an import from an external database. The person I obtain the data from does an output of the table in a form to do a "COPY FROM". The problem is that it might happen that there are some data rows which infringe referential integrity and I have to ask back the data provider for additional data which describe additional data which are referenced by the Id mentioned above. So I have to sort out those data sets who have no known Id in my production data. Kind regards Andreas. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org