On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:07 PM, rverghese <ri...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Yes I am using that option for one of my POstgres 9.1 database and it works > well. But its still an issue with Foreign keys, which you need to drop and > recreate .
Having to drop and create foriegn keys is a legitimate concern. I am looking into improving that. > Also I use Slony for replication and it uses the primary key to > check repl. So I don't want that to be interrupted by dropping PK and > recreating PK. > If you look closely at that example, DROP and CREATE of the primary key is being done in one command (and hence one transaction), so anything that depends this constraint should not be affected except from the fact that this table will be locked in exclusive mode for the duration of this operation, which should be very short. Best regards, -- Gurjeet Singh EnterpriseDB Corporation The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
