Re: How to get single table data from backup - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ray O'Donnell
Subject Re: How to get single table data from backup
Date
Msg-id 0102019b37627d9c-03ffe58c-44b4-4245-8cde-fb8f84b97509-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com
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In response to How to get single table data from backup  (Andrus <kobruleht2@hot.ee>)
List pgsql-general
On 19/12/2025 12:41, Andrus wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Large database backup is created using
>
> pg_dump -b -f backup.backup -F c
>
> How to restore single table in schema firma2 from it in Windows?
>
> Created database recovery and tried
>
> pg_restore --schema-only --n firma2 -d recovery backup.backup
> pg_restore -n firma2 -t tabletorecover -d recovery backup.backup
>
> This fails since tabletorecover contains lot foreign key references. 
> Foreign keys refer to other tables which have foreign keys to another 
> tables etc. making huge graph. All tables contain also data.
>
I haven't tried it, but - off the top of my head - how about:

(i) Create the table separately by hand, without the FK references.

(ii) Do a data-only restore, using the -a and -t options to pg_restore


Ray.




> I need to get table data only. Using PostgresSql 17 in windows.
>
> Andrus.
>
>
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Ray O'Donnell // Galway // Ireland
ray@rodonnell.ie




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