Re: Help to dump tables in a database and restore in another database

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Intengu Technologies
<sindile(dot)bidla(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Running Windows7 with Postgresql 8.4
>
> I am trying to dump about 132 tables, this is my command:
>
> pg_dump --host localhost --port 5432 --username postgres -o -v -t
> 'myschema.*' dbname > mydump.sql
>
> This generates an error no matching tables were found, is the asterisk
> not a wild card meaning all tables found in the schema named myschema

You probably want to use the '-n' argument to specify the schema name
directly. See the documentation for pg_dump.

> When restoring the tables from the dump will i still have the 132
> tables or 1 table

The database tables will be dumped as is, so you will have pretty much
a copy of your original data (132 tables, if that is the correct
number).

> Your valued advise is appreciated.
>
>
> 2009/10/18 Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer(at)spamfence(dot)net>:
>> Joshua Tolley <eggyknap(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 09:38:44AM +0200, Intengu Technologies wrote:
>>> > I would like to dump a number of tables from a database and load them
>>> > on another database. How do I accomplish this.
>>>
>>> pg_dump makes this easy. Documentation is here:
>>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/app-pgdump.html
>>
>> Right, additionally, pg_dump has options to specify only destined
>> tables, views, sequence, schemas etc. to dump.
>>
>>
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