On Oct 10, 2014, at 1:27 PM, Leonardo M. Ramé <l.rame@griensu.com> wrote:
Hi, today I needed to re-create certain records deleted from a mysql database, so I restored an old backup, opened a terminal and logged in to the old database using the "mysql" command line utility, then opened a new terminal with mysql connected to the production database. Then did a "select * from table where id=xxx \G;" to display a record, then, on the other terminal I had to write "insert into table(field1, field2,...,fieldN) values(...);" for each record.
While doing that I tought of a neat feature that psql could provide, that is something like "\insert for select * from table where id=xxx;" this should create the insert command for the requested query.
You can do something like given below: CREATE TABLE temp_generate_inserts AS SELECT * FROM table id=xx Then use pg_dump --column-inserts -t temp_generate_inserts db1|psql db2 and later you can drop temp_generate_inserts table.
