On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 08:24 -0500, François Beausoleil wrote: > Hi! > > I'm getting ready to build a reporting server, one where long-running queries and backups will be taken from. This new server will be a slave from the master where all changes are done. Some reports are better expressed with extracting a subset of the data and leaving it in a table to be reused, until the report set is done. > > In my specific case, I have a table with ~30M rows representing Twitter users. When I JOIN this table with the interactions I have on hand, it takes a long time, because PostgreSQL ends up doing a full table scan of the personas table. To make subsequent reporting steps easier, I do the JOIN only once, and write the results to a table. > > My question is: > > * Can a new schema be created on a replica? No if you use a HotStandby. Yes if you use another kind of replication (Slony for example). > * Will this impact replication in any way? No, because you can't with a HotStandby. No if you use another kind of replication (Slony for example). > * If I can't, what would you advise? dump / reload in a separate database without dropping the table, to keep the extra schemas around? > It depends. Using Slony is one way to do it. -- Guillaume http://blog.guillaume.lelarge.info http://www.dalibo.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
