restoring a .dmp file to another table name - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Mike Nolan
Subject restoring a .dmp file to another table name
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Msg-id 200408230415.i7N4Fdid017809@gw.tssi.com
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Responses Re: restoring a .dmp file to another table name  (Tino Wildenhain <tino@wildenhain.de>)
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I've probably asked this question before, but what do people do when they
need to restore a table that has been dumped but as a different table
name?  That doesn't appear to be an option in pg_restore.  (Is that just
a front end to psql?)

I need both the old table and the live one in the same database so
that I can compare a set of values to see what changed, and I don't have
a spare system to do it on at the moment, nor can I rename the live file
since it is in use most of the day.

This is a fairly large table (2.8M rows, 500MB dump file) and I think
it may have some data in it that would get messed up if I were to try to
extract the DDL leading up to the COPY statement using head and tail
statements to change the table name.
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Mike Nolan

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