Re: copying between Postgres databases - Mailing list pgsql-general

From scott.marlowe
Subject Re: copying between Postgres databases
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.33.0303181219460.5388-100000@css120.ihs.com
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In response to copying between Postgres databases  (javier garcia - CEBAS <rn001@cebas.csic.es>)
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On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, javier garcia - CEBAS wrote:

> Hi;
> I've got two questions:
>
> 1) What is the best way to copy a Postgres table in one database into another
> Postgres database? Is it possible to copy the structure and the data at the
> same time?
>
> 2) Is there a way to do a short of pg_dump and to use the resulting file as
> input to another database, but preserving existing tables in this latter?

Sure, just pipe the output of pg_dump to psql:

pg_dump database1 -t tablename | psql database2 -e


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