Re: restore - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Craig James
Subject Re: restore
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Msg-id 4CAB8F9B.70401@emolecules.com
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In response to restore  (Dinesh Bhandary <dbhandary@iii.com>)
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On 10/5/10 11:08 AM, Dinesh Bhandary wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is there an easy way to restore to a new table where the column name have been changed but data remains the same?
> For example I am trying to restore from existing system, table1(col1) to table1(col2) and it is erroring out on the
newcolumn name even though it is a data only restore. I was just wondering if there is a quick way to bypass this. Let
meknow. 

If your data file is plain text with a COPY or INSERT commands, do this using psql:

begin;
alter table1 rename col2 to col1;
\i datafile.sql
alter table1 rename col1 to col2;
commit;

Craig

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