So I'd have to do: pg_restore -l /tmp/mydump | grep my_table > /tmp/mytable_lines pg_restore --format=c -C -U myUser -d myDB /tmp/mydump -L /tmp/mytable_lines It looks like I have to use "grep" to look for my table and not "-t my_table" because the PKEY constraint is NOT listed when I do pg_restore -l /tmp/mydump -t my_table In any case, shouldn't the documentation describe more the pg_restore -t command ? It's really misleading and one can discover this only by running into problems. Thanks for your help, Jan On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "Jan C." <chaljan@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> I have dump of an entire database and I'm trying to restore only one named >> table: > >>> pg_restore --format=c -C -U myUser -d myDB /tmp/mydump -t my_table > >> The command completes without errors/warnings but the resulting table in the >> database is missing the PKEY constraint ! > > Use pg_restore -l, then extract the lines relevant to your table, then > pg_restore -L to restore just the named items. > > I think there's a TODO to make pg_restore's -t switch work more like > pg_dump's, but at the moment they're really quite different animals. > pg_restore doesn't have any logic about "oh, if he asked for this > item I bet he wants that one too". > > regards, tom lane > -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
