Thomas Kellerer wrote: > mrprice22 wrote on 22.11.2013 19:25: >> We are in the process of moving from Oracle to PostgreSQL. We use a stored >> procedure to populate some reporting tables once an hour. There are two >> sets of these tables, set A and set B. We use synonyms to point to the >> “active” set of tables at any given time. >> >> The procedure works like this: >> >> 1. If set A tables are “active” truncate set B tables or if set A tables are >> “active” truncate set B tables. >> 2. Populate set B tables. >> 3. Set synonyms to point to set B tables. >> >> How might I accomplish the same thing in PostgreSQL? > > You can use a view You can also keep the tables A and B in different schemas (probably a good idea anyway) and change search_path on the client side. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
