On 2/21/19 11:52 AM, Tiffany Thang wrote: > Thanks everyone. Unfortunately the schema rename would not work since > the source database will be our production system. We have not gone live > yet but the system is expected to be constantly used. > > I have multiple tables that I need to export ranging from 20GB to 60GB > each. The parallel will not work for a single table but would be > beneficial if I have multiple tables to dump. > > I'm thinking maybe using what Adrian has suggested with the -f option > and then modify the file or maybe use a common public schema everywhere > on the source and target databases. I would have to restrict who has > access to the public schema.
You can further break this down by using -s and -a switches to only work with the table definitions and table data respectively. This can also be done on the pg_dump end.