"John Smith" <sodgodofall@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > After reading the documentation, it seems like the following might > work. Suppose the database has two tables foo and bar, and we're only > interested in backing up table foo: > 1. Call pg_start_backup > 2. Use the pg_class table in the catalog to get the data file names > for tables foo and bar. > 3. Copy the system files and the data file for foo. Skip the data file for bar. > 4. Call pg_stop_backup() > 5. Copy WAL files generated between 1. and 4. to another location. > Later, if we want to restore the database somewhere with just table > foo, we just use postgres's normal recovery mechanism and point it at > the files we backed up in 2. and the WAL files from 5. > Does anyone see a problem with this approach Yes: it will not work, not even a little bit, because the WAL files will contain updates for all the tables. You can't just not have the tables there during restore. Why are you not using pg_dump? regards, tom lane
