Re: backing up the data from a single table?

Hi Stan,

El vie., 13 de septiembre de 2019 11:14, stan <stanb(at)panix(dot)com> escribió:

> My development methodology is to create scripts that init the db, and load
> test data, as I make changes.
>
> Now, I am starting to move toward a test instance with real data. The end
> user has provided "real" test data, n spreadsheets. I have the inputing of
> data from these working OK. (takes a bit of hand work). What I would like
> to do, is continue to init the "test" database. To make that easy, I would
> like to be able to "export" individual tables, so I can use the scripts to
> reload them. I prefer not to have to convert these to my load script
> format.
>
> Is there a way to "export" a single table, that can be easily re
> "imported"?
>
>
> --
> "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve
> neither liberty nor safety."
> -- Benjamin Franklin
>

It may be a strange suggestion but did you consider containers like Docker?
It's been a great help on a 100GB+ test database. Successful changes were
committed, failed changes were rolled back creating a new instance based on
the same image (with data preloaded). It takes seconds to do a rollback.

Olivier

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