Re: [SPAM] Restore single table from pg_dumpall.

From: Jim Nasby <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
To: Duncan Garland <duncan(dot)garland(at)ntlworld(dot)com>
Cc: "Jim Stalewski" <JStalewski(at)VisaLighting(dot)com>, <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [SPAM] Restore single table from pg_dumpall.
Date: 2007-01-26 04:42:15
Message-ID: 4421BD50-D064-413C-A043-EDB985D212ED@decibel.org
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On Jan 23, 2007, at 5:13 AM, Duncan Garland wrote:
> If the dump is in plain text then you need to strip out the surplus
> data and feed the rest to psql. If the file is too big for vi, try
> a stream editor such as sed or a simple perl script.

I find that using less to get line numbers and then using a
combination of head and tail works well. Almost guaranteed to be a
whole lot faster than loading a large file into vi.
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Jim Nasby jim(at)nasby(dot)net
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)

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