am Wed, dem 18.04.2007, um 21:59:35 -0700 mailte chrisj folgendes: > > I would like to do a selective export of a number of tables from a large > database to import into a smaller (test) DB. > > I know about: psql dbname -tc "select * from tableX where whatever" > > tableX.dat > > but unless I put it through a sed script, this file cannot be easily used > for import. > > It feels like I am re-inventing the wheel. Does anybody know a better way > or have a good sed script. If you have 8.2, than you can use COPY also for VIEWs or for SELECTS. If not, create a temp. table as result for your SELECT and COPY this temp. table instead the original table. Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) GnuPG-ID: 0x3FFF606C, privat 0x7F4584DA http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net
