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 .
i think you're best off with a pgdump
