Re: Copying data from one table of one database to other table f other database - Mailing list pgsql-novice

On 2009-04-27, Preetam Palwe <preetamp@aftek.com> wrote:
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> Hello all
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>                 I want to copy the data from one table to other table.
> These tables reside in two different databases.
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> I am thinking of using following query=20
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> insert into table2 (select * from table1)
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> but the problem is how can I specify the database name?

you can't



you can do this however:

 psql -c " copy (select * from table1) to stdout " database1 | psql -c " copy table2 from stdin " database2