I'm sure no one else on this list has done anything like this, but here's a
cautionary tale.
I wanted to synchronise data in two tables (issue lists) - i.e. whenever a
record is added into one, add a similar record into the other. The two tables
are similar in format but not exactly the same
Oliver
I've read your email, with interest. I haven't had to deal with this
sort of problem in PostgreSQL, but I have frequently dealt with it in a
Sybase environment, first encountered about 25 years ago.
I am most curious to know why you didn't use the same sequence for both
tables, I
One other wrinkle to note. After clearing out these rows, running 'VACUUM
table2', 'ANALYZE table2' and 'REINDEX table table2', some queries with
simple sequence scans were taking a few seconds to run even though there
are only a thousand rows in the table. I finally found that running
On 13/05/14 11:44, Oliver Kohll - Mailing Lists wrote:
The problem came when someone entered a record with no subject, but left it
null. When this was copied over and present in both tables, the *next* time the
join was done, a duplicate was created because the join didn't see them as
