Thomas: On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 4:25 PM, Thomas Güttler <guettliml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This sound good. Is there a name for this trick, to find more details? Not that I know of. It's really old, basic stuff, with many variations possible. I've being doing variation of it since the half-inch tape and punched cards times, and use it a lot for file processing ( as renaming in Linux is atomic in many filesystems ) Francisco Olarte. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general