Re: Need help on how to backup a table

am Fri, dem 28.03.2008, um 2:08:17 -0700 mailte ajcity folgendes:
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> If I wanted to use that with a command like "COPY (SELECT * FROM country
> WHERE country_name LIKE 'A%') TO '<filename>'; " do I specify the file
> location for the remote machine as the <filename> or do I specify the
> location for local machine?

Local file systems, and the user postgres needs write-access. I'm using
/tmp/... for such.
And yes: COPY from a select works only for 8.2 up, not for 8.1. Create a
table via 'create table as select ...' and COPY this table.

> And what if the psql clients are different (local: 8.1.5 remote:8.2.6)?

no matter

Andreas
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