> On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 3:49 PM Adrian Klaver <adrian.kla...@aklaver.com>
wrote:

> > Have you tried with:
> BEGIN;
> CREATE TABLE some_table SELECT some_data FROM other_table LIMIT 1 WITH
> NO DATA;
> COMMIT;
>
> The above gets you the table structure, but no data.
>
> BEGIN;
> INSERT into some_table SELECT * FROM other_table;
>COMMIT;
>
> The above populates the table

Thanks -- we were indeed creating and populating the new table all in a
single transaction.

I'll see if we can split this into two transactions so that the table
structure is committed quickly.  I think you're right that this would
mostly sidestep the issue.

-Jason

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