Friday, August 8, 2008

[GENERAL] Re:[GENERAL] restoring one table?

Brian Maguire wrote:
> We need to restore one table from a backup. What is the proper way to do this?
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> Our backup command looks like this:
>
> pg_dump -C -Fc -S postgresql mydatabase > today.backup.sqlc
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> I am using PostgreSQL 8.1.
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Use the switch --table=NAME of pg_restore, i.e. something like this:

pg_restore -C -F c S postgresql -d mydatabase --table=your_table -v today.backup.sqlc

Tomas

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