Thread: How to copy tables between databases?
TIA!
Kynn
Kynn Jones wrote: > > > Is there a simple way to copy a table from one database to another > without generating an intermediate dump file? > > TIA! > > Kynn > You're looking for ETL. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extract%2C_transform%2C_load -- Tom Hart IT Specialist Cooperative Federal 723 Westcott St. Syracuse, NY 13210 (315) 471-1116 ext. 202 (315) 476-0567 (fax)
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Kynn Jones <kynnjo@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Is there a simple way to copy a table from one database to another without
> generating an intermediate dump file?
Using UNIX pipes :-)
$ pg_dump ... | psql ...
:-)
Regards,
Dawid
Kynn Jones wrote: > Is there a simple way to copy a table from one database to another without > generating an intermediate dump file? Something along the lines of: pg_dump ... -d db1 --table=mytable | psql -d db2 -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd
On Tuesday 26 February 2008, Kynn Jones wrote:
> Is there a simple way to copy a table from one database to another without
> generating an intermediate dump file?
> TIA!
>
> Kynn
pg_dump -t [table] [database] | psql -U [remoteuser] -h [remotehost]
[remotedatabase]
comes to mind...
You can and maybe have to add more switches to the pg_dump command, but the
above is what I'm doing (my local db is set to trust) to copy a table with
data to a remote machine
Uwe
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On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 15:19 -0500, Kynn Jones wrote: > > Is there a simple way to copy a table from one database to another > without generating an intermediate dump file? > pg_dump -t <table name> <source DB> | psql -d <target DB> -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp.
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Brad Nicholson <bnichols@ca.afilias.info> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 15:19 -0500, Kynn Jones wrote: > > > > Is there a simple way to copy a table from one database to another > > without generating an intermediate dump file? > > > > pg_dump -t <table name> <source DB> | psql -d <target DB> Starting around 8.2 you can have > 1 -t switch, and grab a table or a wildcarded set of tables with each one.