Re: Shell script to extract a table from a plain text dump

On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 04:46:12PM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> If you have huge plain text dumps, and just want to restore one table
> it's usually painful. Attached is a small shell script that can take a
> plain text dump and extract a single table's COPY data commands from it.
>
> If people think it's interesting and should be developed, I can pop it
> on pgfoundry or something.

Hmm, what I usually use is:

bzcat $file | sed -ne "/^COPY \"$table\" /,/^\\\.\$/p"

However, error checking and wrapping it into a script is a good idea.
If it got given a couple of switches to control the output, maybe we
can have a pg_restore for text dumps :)

Have a nice day,
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