Re: Delete subset of database

Hi!

What about this?
(dirty hack, but worx)
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#!/bin/bash
#sorry for syntax failures

tables_to_drop=`psql olddb -c "select * from pg_class where relkind =
'r' and name not like 'pg_%'"`;

for i in $tables_to_drop; do
psql newdb -c "drop table $i ";
done;

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Of course it is very risky, so first do it on your test environment.

Laszlo Hornyak

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, j sk wrote:

> Hi all,
> Ive got two databases, say full_db and sub_db.
> sub_db is nothing but a subset of full_db.
>
> What I would like to do is delete the data and tables
> in sub_db from full_db. In essence, Im trying to
> remove the redundant data and have distinct databases.
>
>
> This is an attempt to archive the historic or inactive
> data. I would be glad if anyone could point a way to
> handle this situation.
>
> Thanks,
> SK
>
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