Re: Copy entire schema A to a different schema B

Hi Ron,
How would that work if I'm only interested in importing/refreshing a single
table in a target schema that contains several other tables?

Thanks.

Tiff

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 5:36 PM Rob Sargent <robjsargent(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

>
> On 2/20/19 3:22 PM, Tiffany Thang wrote:
>
> Hi Adrian,
> I managed to backup my table in parallel using -Fd but I'm back to my
> original issue where I could not restore the table to a different schema.
>
> For example,
> I would like to backup testuser1.mytable and restore it to
> testuser2.mytable.
>
> pg_dump -U testuser1 -Fd -f c:\temp\testuser1 -j 8 -t mytable -h myserver
> testdb
>
> where mytable is in testuser1 schema
>
> The dump completed fine but when I attempted to restore the table using
> pg_restore to another database, it tried to create the table in testuser1
> schema. The restore failed since testuser1 schema does not exist in the
> target database. When I created a testuser1 schema in the target database,
> the restore worked fine. Since the dump toc is in binary format, I could
> not make the change to reflect the new target schema, testuser2.
>
> So, how should I go about restoring tables from one schema to a different
> schema name?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Tiff
>
>
> Can you not simply rename the schema after importing it? Perhaps renaming
> an exiting version first, if necessary. Rename schema A to B; import schema
> A; rename A to C; rename B to A;
>
>
>