Re: backing up the data from a single table?

On 13/09/2019 15:13, stan wrote:
> 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"?

Yes, absolutely:

pg_dump -t <table-name> (etc)

Ray.

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