Re: Dumping partial database content

Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when cbender(at)mriresearch(dot)org ("Bender, Cheryl") wrote:
> Just wondering--is it possible to dump on a temporary table?

The temp table is only visible inside the context of the transaction
under which it was created.

A pg_dump session will create an independent transaction context,
where the table won't be visible, alas.

So you can't use pg_dump to dump the data out.

You may, however, use COPY to dump it out yourself.

select * into temp table foo from bar;
copy foo to '/tmp/foo_contents.txt';
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