Re: Dumping part (not all) of the data in a database...methods?

From: "Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Andrew Edson" <cheighlund(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Dumping part (not all) of the data in a database...methods?
Date: 2007-04-11 18:20:08
Message-ID: b42b73150704111120p74abb882xee8cd64286661aa8@mail.gmail.com
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On 4/11/07, Andrew Edson <cheighlund(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
> I'm needing to do a partial dump on a database. All of the entries in the
> db can be marked as one of two groups, and I've been asked to create a dump
> of just the second group. It is possible to do a select statement based
> dump and just grab the one set of records in the output?

you are aware you can dump a table at a time, right? pg_dump -t foo
dumps table foo. A partial dumping scheme would probably involve
using pg_dump with various flag in combination with a script that
makes a list of things to dump.

merlin

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