Advice on moving rows to history - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Dave Smith
Subject Advice on moving rows to history
Date
Msg-id 1104357538.14191.14.camel@playpen.candata.com
Whole thread Raw
List pgsql-general
I am trying to figure out the fastest way to move rows from a current
table to a history table. There are currently 150,000 rows of which
about 60,000 get moved (monthly). There are multiple queries involved to
figure out whether or not a row should be moved, so I am making multiple
passes over the table. Right now I see two options

1) Write a function that inserts a row into the history table and then
removes it from the current
2) Have a status flag that marks the rows for history and then insert
them into the history table then remove all of these rows from the
current.

I would like to know what other peoples experiences have been with this
problem, and what would you suggest.


--
Dave Smith
CANdata Systems Ltd
416-493-9020


pgsql-general by date:

Previous
From: Eric Brown
Date:
Subject: debug_print_plan (pg7.4) doesn't seem to do anything
Next
From: Tom Lane
Date:
Subject: Re: pg_dump and pgpool