2010/12/31 Håvard Wahl Kongsgård <haavard(dot)kongsgaard(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> Is it possible to overriding the default psql behavior, so that the sql
> session simply ignores any missing fields?
>
Do you still have the original database? Re-run your table exports
without the unneeded columns using COPY, then import those outputs
instead.