Re: How to take backup of a table on a different schema in PostgreSQL

Thanks a lot. This works "pg_dump -U postgres -t 1.activity -d
geopostgrest -f activity_05-08-2015.sql" perfectly fine.

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On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Glyn Astill <glynastill(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote:

> > From: Geo P.C. <pcgeopc(at)gmail(dot)com>
> >To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
> >Sent: Thursday, 6 August 2015, 11:20
> >Subject: [ADMIN] How to take backup of a table on a different schema in
> PostgreSQL
> >
> >
> >
> >Please let us know in PostgreSQL how we can take backup of a table on a
> different schema. We have db named "geopostgrest" and under Schema named
> "1" (Not inside Public Schema) we need to take backup of table "activity"
> >Please see the following:
> >postgres=# \c geopostgrest
> You are now connected to database "geopostgrest" as user "postgres".
> geopostgrest=# \dt
> No relations found.
> geopostgrest=# \dt 1. List of relations Schema | Name |
> Type | Owner
> --------+---------------------------------+-------+---------- 1 |
> activity | table | postgres
> >We tried the following command but its not working.
> >pg_dump -U postgres -n1 -d geopostgrest -t activity -f
> activity_05-08-2015.sql pg_dump: No matching tables were found
> >We are using PostgreSQL 9.4.4 and Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
> >Can any one please help us on it
> >Thanks
> >
>
> >
>
> If you take a peek at the man pages you'll see some thing like:
>
> "The -n and -N switches have no effect when -t is used, because tables
> selected by -t will be dumped regardless of those switches, and non-table
> objects will not be dumped."
>
> Try something like:
>
> pg_dump -U postgres -t 1.activity -d geopostgrest -f
> activity_05-08-2015.sql
>