Re: Duplicate tables information through metadata queries

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "ldh(at)laurent-hasson(dot)com" <ldh(at)laurent-hasson(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-jdbc(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-jdbc(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Duplicate tables information through metadata queries
Date: 2021-09-08 21:23:41
Message-ID: CAKFQuwanxv00PFA+T5G0DmiVM1xTBZovW0c80ZLLbh=kCxtn5A@mail.gmail.com
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On Wednesday, September 8, 2021, ldh(at)laurent-hasson(dot)com <
ldh(at)laurent-hasson(dot)com> wrote:

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> I am not sure about your solution for cleanup however. Do you mean?
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> COMMENT ON TABLE PEOPLE.Contact IS 'Blah';

Yes

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> This doesn't seem to have any effect except updating the comment for the
> second row above. Should I just delete the record from the table for the
> tables affected? I know this is generally not good practice AT ALL... 😊

Maybe reindex the table first, then do comment on? It might be worth
posting this to -bugs and solicit suggestions on getting out the situation
from a better targeted audience.

> Also, you mention data corruption, but would that survive a backup/restore?
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Both rows should be copied out on backup and copied back in during restore.

David J.

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