Jonathan Vanasco wrote:
On Apr 25, 2007, at 2:05 PM, Richard Huxton wrote:
Owen Hartnett wrote:
I want to "freeze" a snapshot of the database every year (think of
end of year tax records). However, I want this frozen version (and
all the previous frozen versions) available to the database user as
read-only. My thinking is to copy the entire public schema (which is
where all the current data lives) into a new schema, named 2007
(2008, etc.)
Sounds perfectly reasonable. You could either do it as a series of:
CREATE TABLE archive2007.foo AS SELECT * FROM public.foo;
or do a pg_dump of schema "public", tweak the file to change the
schema names and restore it.
the create table method won't copy the constraints + fkeys .
Shouldn't matter for an archive though, since you'd not want anyone to
have permissions. Still, pg_dump is my preference. Apart from anything
else, you can keep a copy of the dump around too.
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
