Re: making a copy of a table within the same database

Hello

select into is usefull cmd for you

http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/sql-selectinto.html

select * into newtable from oldtable;

regards
Pavel Stehule

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Sally Sally wrote:

> I wanted to dump the contents of one table to another (with a different
> name) within the same database. I am looking at pg_restore and it doesn't
> seem to have the option of specifying the name of the table we want to dump
> to, only the name we want to dump from. Does this mean I have to create the
> table and do an sql statement to copy the table? Is this the best way?
> Sally
>
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