On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Dann Corbit wrote: > If you are going to completely replace the data in a table, drop the > table, create the table, and use the bulk copy interface.
Actually, that's a bad habit to get into. Views disappear, as do triggers or constraints. Better to 'truncate table' or 'delete from table'. I know, I had a bear of a time with a nightly drop table;create table;copy data in script that I forgot about and built a nice new app on views. worked fine, came in the next morning, app was down... ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
