Re: Backing up several tables using pg_dump -t

From: Rajesh Kumar Mallah <mallah(dot)rajesh(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Tomeh, Husam" <htomeh(at)firstam(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Backing up several tables using pg_dump -t
Date: 2005-09-22 20:15:58
Message-ID: a97c77030509221315134d5277@mail.gmail.com
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man pg_dump seems to say it is not possible

-t table

--table=table
Dump data for table only. It is possible for there to be multi-
ple tables with the same name in different schemas; if that is
the case, all matching tables will be dumped. Specify both
--schema and --table to select just one table.

Note: In this mode, pg_dump makes no attempt to dump any other
database objects that the selected table may depend upon. There-
fore, there is no guarantee that the results of a single-table
dump can be successfully restored by themselves into a clean
database.

On 9/23/05, Tomeh, Husam <htomeh(at)firstam(dot)com> wrote:
>
> I'm having problem backing up several tables using pg_dump. When
> selecting one table only with the '-t' option, it works just fine. When
> I tried to include several tables, pg_dump fails with error that the
> tables specified don't exist. Can you show me an example of backing up
> several tables using pg_dump.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
> --
> Husam
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