On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 09:14 +0200, A. Kretschmer wrote: > am Thu, dem 30.08.2007, um 14:59:06 +0800 mailte Ow Mun Heng folgendes: > > Is there a way to do a dump of a database using a select statement? > > A complete database or just a simple table? a simple table.. couple million records, want some of them for testing.. say ~100pcs (right now, using insert into foo select * fromt able limit 10) > > > > > eg: \copy trd to 'file' select * from table limit 10 > > Since 8.2 you can use COPY (select * from table) TO 'file'. superuser priviledge only right? > Other solution, use a regular UNIX-Shell and psql, a la > > echo "select * from table limit 10;" | psql <database> > file I want them to be in comma delimited format.. will the output be importable again using \copy into pg? ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
