Re: Backing up several tables using pg_dump -t

Thanks Rajesh.

Is this on TODO list? I think it's beneficial to be able to backup (or
oracle term, export) several tables (NOT only ONE) and restore (import)
back to another database for instance from a production DB to a
development or staging to prod, etc..) [This is doable in Oracle too
via the export/import utilities.]

--
Husam

-----Original Message-----
From: Rajesh Kumar Mallah [mailto:mallah(dot)rajesh(at)gmail(dot)com]
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 1:16 PM
To: Tomeh, Husam
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Backing up several tables using pg_dump -t

man pg_dump seems to say it is not possible

-t table

--table=table
Dump data for table only. It is possible for there to be
multi-
ple tables with the same name in different schemas; if
that is
the case, all matching tables will be dumped.
Specify both
--schema and --table to select just one table.

Note: In this mode, pg_dump makes no attempt to dump any
other
database objects that the selected table may depend upon.
There-
fore, there is no guarantee that the results of a
single-table
dump can be successfully restored by themselves into a
clean
database.

On 9/23/05, Tomeh, Husam <htomeh(at)firstam(dot)com> wrote:
>
> I'm having problem backing up several tables using pg_dump. When
> selecting one table only with the '-t' option, it works just fine.
When
> I tried to include several tables, pg_dump fails with error that the
> tables specified don't exist. Can you show me an example of backing up
> several tables using pg_dump.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
> --
> Husam
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