As far as dropping/recreating triggers, there seem to be two strategies:
1. Perform the drop-import-create operation in a transaction, thereby
guaranteeing the accuracy of the counts but presumably locking the
table during the operation, which could take many minutes (up to an
hour or two) in extreme cases.
2. Drop the triggers, import, create the triggers, and update with the
import count, recognizing that other updates could've occurred without
accumulating updates during the import process, then later (nightly,
maybe?) do a full update to recalibrate the counts. In this case the
count( * ) involved could also lock the table for a bit pending the
sequential scan(s) if the update is performed in a transaction.
Otherwise, again, there is a realistic possibility of inaccurate counts
occurring and persisting between calibrations.
Is there a best practice anywhere here?
-tfo
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Thomas F. O'Connell
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On Jan 27, 2005, at 11:41 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Thomas,
>
>> Would it be absurd to drop the triggers during import and recreate
>> them
>> afterward and update the counts in a summ> ary update based on
>> information from the import process?
>
> That's what I'd do.
>
> --
> --Josh
>
> Josh Berkus
> Aglio Database Solutions
> San Francisco