-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/14/07 19:34, Paul Lambert wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/14/07 19:11, carter ck wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I am looking for ways to create an archive of records older than 3 >>>> months in one of my table, and store these extracted records into a >>>> local database. Does Postgres have any command to do this? > > A single command that will copy data to a destination database, and > then delete from the source database? > > I think the problem may be in determining when a record was added to the > table. If there is no 'date added' column as part of your table > specification that you populate when adding a row then is there any way > to determine when a record was added? > > If there is a date added (which is a standard I put in all tables I use) > then it should be a fairly straight forward task of doing an INSERT INTO > followed by a DELETE FROM. As for a single command... I'm not aware of > any "INSERT INTO AND DELETE ORIGINAL" variant so it would have to be two > SQL commands, albeit it uncomplicated. But that falls down when you need to archive 60M records and not block any other jobs. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF07vkS9HxQb37XmcRAhN+AJ4/KIxnwof9gGa2opz9LlpcKeJjHwCghhGz oRFZDrAFhphQMpV13l0Brgw= =TOaV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
