2012/9/7 Merlin Moncure <mmonc...@gmail.com>
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Edson Richter <edsonrich...@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Em 06/09/2012 15:40, John R Pierce escreveu:
> >
> >> On 09/06/12 5:30 AM, Edson Richter wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> You could change the default setting for the user with
> >>>>
> >>>> ALTER ROLE someuser SET search_path=...
> >>>
> >>> That is perfect! I can have separate users for each application, and
> then
> >>> they will have the correct search path.
> >>> You saved my day,
> >>
> >>
> >> the default search_path is $USER,public, so by naming your schema's to
> the
> >> usernames, you don't even need to alter role...
> >>
> > Wonderful, this would have the effect I expect that the connection
> defines
> > the path. Then I'll use user to select the specific schema, and the
> "public"
> > schema as the main schema.
> >
> > Thanks to you all, I think I have everything needed to put my migration
> > project in practice.
>
> I do this exact thing frequently. I route everything through dumps.
> Here's some roughed out bash script for ya.. The basic MO is to
> restore hack the restore script with sed, restoring to a scratch
> schema so that the drop/reload of the client private schema can be
> deferred until the data is already loaded.
>
> function load_client {
>
> client=$1
> database=master_db
>
> echo "[`date`] Loading $client "
>
> psql -c "update client set load_started = now(), LoadedPO = NULL
> where name = '$client';" $database
> <get backup database and place into $client.current.gz>
> psql -c "drop schema if exists ${client}_work cascade" $database
> 2>&1 | grep ERROR
> psql -c "create schema ${client}_work" $database 2>&1 | grep ERROR
> gzip -cd $client.backup.gz | sed "s/^SET search_path = public/SET
> search_path=${client}_work/" | psql -XAq $database 2>&1 | grep ERROR |
> grep -v "plpgsql"
> psql -c "begin; drop schema if exists ${client} cascade; alter
> schema ${client}_work rename to $client; commit;" $database
> psql -c "update client set load_finished = now() where name =
> '$client';" $database
> rm -f $client.current.gz
> }
>
> To cut restore time down I run them in parallel:
>
> NUM_FORKS=4
>
> function do_parallel {
> while [ `jobs | wc -l` -ge $NUM_FORKS ]
> do
> sleep 1
> done
>
> "$@" &
> }
>
> Then it's just a matter of:
> <get $clients somehow>
> for client in $clients
> do
> do_parallel load_client $client
> done
>
Great stuff, Merlin! ;-)
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// Dmitriy.
