On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 10:39 +0000, Simon Riggs wrote: > Perhaps a more useful definition would be > > EXCHANGE TABLE target WITH source; > > which just swaps the heap and indexes of each table. > You can then use TRUNCATE if you want to actually destroy data.
Yes please, that's exactly what I would have needed in many occasions. But one problem would be when the replaced table is the _parent_ for a foreign key relationship. I don't think you can have that constraint pre-verified on the replacement table and simply replacing the content could leave the child relations with orphans. Cheers, Csaba. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers