Re: db partial dumping with pg_dump

Actually, loading all this stuff into COPY is not the way to go, I
think.

Informix had:

UNLOAD TO 'filename'
SELECT ...

I have to admit, this is a superior way to do thing compared to what we
have. Is is possible for us to get:

COPY TO 'filename'
SELECT ...

It allows any arbitrary table, group by, even order by combination.

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Hannu Krosing wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 20:24, Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> > What would seem to make sense is adding a WHERE-clause option to
> > COPY TO, and then you could go
> > COPY table TO 'myfile' WHERE ...
>
> What about :
>
> COPY table TO 'myfile' [ WHERE cond ] [ AS INSERT [ WITH COLUMN ] ];
>
> to get the data as INSERT INTO statements (pg_dump -d), with optional
> column list (pg_dump -D)
>
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> Hannu
>
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