On Feb 19, 2007, at 9:05 AM, Richard Huxton wrote:
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Jerry LeVan wrote:
Is there an elegant way I can merge/update the two tables so that
they will contain the same information ( with no duplicates or
omissions)?
It sounds like you'll want some form of replication, but whether
single-master or multi-master no-one can say without more
information.
I meant to say I had dblink installed :)
The following sequence of steps seems to work ok, the tables are
very small...
insert into tmpRegistrations select *
from dblink('select * from registrations ')
as (software text,
id text,
value text,
location text
)
select dblink_disconnect()
create temp table newregistrations as
(select * from registrations union select * from
tmpregistrations )
truncate table registrations
insert into registrations select * from newregistrations
A couple of points:
1. What if a registration is updated?
2. What happens if you get a new registration between CREATE TEMP
TABLE and TRUNCATE?
--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
While a "generic" solution would be nice, I am the only one using the
DB :)
(so point 2 is unlikely).
Point 1 will require a bit of thought..., currently I would have to do
a manual scan of the (small) table after the merge.
Thanks
Jerry
