Re: pg_restore -t table doesn't restore PKEY - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pg_restore -t table doesn't restore PKEY
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Msg-id 1183.1288362640@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to pg_restore -t table doesn't restore PKEY  ("Jan C." <chaljan@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: pg_restore -t table doesn't restore PKEY  ("Jan C." <chaljan@gmail.com>)
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"Jan C." <chaljan@gmail.com> writes:
> I have dump of an entire database and I'm trying to restore only one named
> table:

>> pg_restore  --format=c -C -U myUser -d myDB /tmp/mydump -t my_table

> The command completes without errors/warnings but the resulting table in the
> database is missing the PKEY constraint !

Use pg_restore -l, then extract the lines relevant to your table, then
pg_restore -L to restore just the named items.

I think there's a TODO to make pg_restore's -t switch work more like
pg_dump's, but at the moment they're really quite different animals.
pg_restore doesn't have any logic about "oh, if he asked for this
item I bet he wants that one too".

            regards, tom lane

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