Re: Dumping a table from one database and adding it to another

On 12/02/2010 12:49 PM, James B. Byrne wrote:
> I have read the documentation respecting backups but I cannot seem
> to find any mention of the specific case that I wish performed.
>
> I have a pair of tables in a production database that I wish to dump
> and then restore to a new, different database. I can, and probably
> will, recreate the tables and column layouts in the new database.
>
> Is there a way to load the data dumped from a single table in one
> database into a new, possibly differently named, table in a
> different database, using PG utilities?
>
>

pg_dump -U postgres -a -t cell_per -f cell_per.sql production

From the head of the file,see inline comment ***:
--
-- PostgreSQL database dump
--

SET statement_timeout = 0;
SET client_encoding = 'UTF8';
SET standard_conforming_strings = off;
SET check_function_bodies = false;
SET client_min_messages = warning;
SET escape_string_warning = off;

SET search_path = public, pg_catalog;

--
-- Data for Name: cell_per; Type: TABLE DATA; Schema: public; Owner:
postgres
--

*** Change above to match new table or leave alone.

COPY cell_per (line_id, category, cell_per, type, ts_insert, ts_update,
user_insert, user_update, plant_type, season, short_category) FROM stdin;

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Adrian Klaver
adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com