Hello Andrew,
> The most certain way is to do pg_dump in binary mode, and then use the
> catalogue after the fact to import only the target tables. But on a
> live database, three pg_dump -t statements is certain _not_ to get you
> a consistent snapshot. (Of course, if the consistency doesn't matter
> in your case, then it makes no difference.)
I dump the tables at a time, were I am sure, that no user is on the database. The dump
is used for another database, that creates a database with only these three tables.
Daniel
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