Mark Woodward wrote: > Oh come on, "misinformed?" is that really called for?
Claiming that all databases share the same system tables is misinformed, with no judgement passed. > The street database is typically generated and QAed in the lab. It is > then uploaded to the server. It has many millions of rows and about a > half dozen indexes. To dump and reload takes almost a day. There is work happening on speeding up bulk loads. > Unless you can tell me how to insert live data and indexes to a > cluster without having to reload the data and recreate the indexes, I think this sort of thing can be worked on. VACUUM FREEZE and some tool support could make this happen. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match