Re: [GENERAL] Move Tables From One Database to Another

2012-03-29 Thread Bret Stern
On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 14:49 -0500, Andy Colson wrote: > On 3/29/2012 2:10 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > I'm storing vector map attribute data in postgres tables and somehow > > managed to create two databases (of similar names) rather than one. I want > > to combine the two. > > > > For tables that e

Re: [GENERAL] Move Tables From One Database to Another

2012-03-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Andy Colson wrote: How many tables are we talking about. If its a few tables, I'd rename them: alter table lake rename to lake_old; ... etc then dump it out and restore into the proper db. Andy, This will work just fine. Thanks for the insight. Rich -- Sent via pgsq

Re: [GENERAL] Move Tables From One Database to Another

2012-03-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Gabriele Bartolini wrote: I suggest that you look at the -l and -L options in pg_restore, which allow you to select which dump entries to restore (selective restore). Gabriele, After sending the message I realized the proper syntax is 'psql -d database -f table.sql'. Th

Re: [GENERAL] Move Tables From One Database to Another

2012-03-29 Thread Andy Colson
On 3/29/2012 2:10 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: I'm storing vector map attribute data in postgres tables and somehow managed to create two databases (of similar names) rather than one. I want to combine the two. For tables that exist in the one database I want to eliminate, I thought to use pg_dump to

Re: [GENERAL] Move Tables From One Database to Another

2012-03-29 Thread Gabriele Bartolini
Hi Rich, Il 29/03/12 21:10, Rich Shepard ha scritto: For tables that exist in the one database I want to eliminate, I thought to use pg_dump to create .sql files, then use pg_restore to add the table to the other database. Did this for one table (with 4201 rows), but 'pg_restore -d databas