Re: making a copy of a table within the same database - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jan Poslusny
Subject Re: making a copy of a table within the same database
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Msg-id 4045F777.8010902@gingerall.cz
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In response to making a copy of a table within the same database  ("Sally Sally" <dedeb17@hotmail.com>)
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create table newtable as select * from oldtable;
:)

Sally Sally wrote:

> I wanted to dump the contents of one table to another (with a
> different name) within the same database. I am looking at pg_restore
> and it doesn't seem to have the option of specifying the name of the
> table we want to dump to, only the name we want to dump from. Does
> this mean I have to create the table and do an sql statement to copy
> the table? Is this the best way?
> Sally
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