I use pg_dump to backup and restore to target and manually sync (using setval function) sequences on tables. Is following an option to avoid manual sync or manual sync is always required?
pg_dump -s (schema-only) + pg_dump -a (only data from tables/LOB/Sequence Values)
And then i use pg_restore in same order which sync the sequences automatically
To get a script that sets the value of a sequence seq, you can run a data-only pg_dump for this sequence:
pg_dump -a -t seq
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I have a dump file (size around 5 GB) which is taken via this command:
pg_dump -U postgres -p 5440 MYPRODDB > MYPRODDB_2022.dmp
The database consists multiple schemas (let's say Schema A,B,C and D) but i need to restore only one schema (schema A).
How can i achieve that? The command below didn't work and gave error:
pg_restore -U postgres -d MYPRODDB -n A -p 5440 < MYPRODDB_2022.dmp
pgrestore: error: input file appears to be a text format dump. please
use psql.
You cannot do that with a plain format dump. That's one of the reasons why you always use a different format unless you need an SQL script.
If you want to stick with a plain text dump:
pg_dump -U postgres -p 5440 -n A MYPRODDB > MYPRODDB_2022.dmp
psql -U postgres -d MYPRODDB -p 5440 -f MYPRODDB_2022.dmp
Though dumping back over the same database as above will throw errors unless you use --clean or its short form -c to create commands to drop existing objects before restoring them:
-c
--clean
Output commands to clean (drop) database objects prior to outputting the commands for creating them. (Unless --if-exists is also specified, restore might generate some harmless error messages, if any objects were not present in the destination database.)
This option is ignored when emitting an archive (non-text) output file. For the archive formats, you can specify the option when you call pg_restore.
Probably also a good idea to throw in --if-exists:
--if-exists
Use conditional commands (i.e., add an IF EXISTS clause) when cleaning database objects. This option is not valid unless --clean is also specified.
I want to restore a database from backup and rewrite all data that is there with backup data.
My current command is like this:
pg_restore -h localhost -U postgres -d dbName -v autobackup_file.dmp
How to restore and rewrite all data?
I've seen an option -c; is that the correct way?
And where should I put it in my command?
-c can be anywhere, e.g. immediately after pg_restore.
It will DROP all restored objects before restoring them, but it will not drop any objects that are not in the dump.
To drop and recreate the whole database so you get a clean copy, you can use -C -c.
This is what I currently do to copy a database from my local machine to a remote server.
Dump local database:
pg_dump dbname --clean -U postgres > dumpfile
Restore remote database:
psql --single-transaction dbname -U postgres < dumpfile
This does a perfect replication.
How do I modify this to ignore particular table names, both in the source and destination?
This will be useful for tables that log website visits. I want to retain my existing remote visit logs, while ignoring my local "visit" logs (which is just me visiting my own website locally).
Using the -t switch, you can be selective about what tables to include:
pg_dump <your switches> -t my_schema.awesome* -f backup.bat postgres
Which will only include those tables.
Likewise, the -T switch will do the opposite -- dump everything but the tables you specified:
pg_dump <your switches> -T my_schema.lame* -f backup.bat postgres
You can use each switch multiple times as well:
pg_dump <your switches> \
-t my_schema.awesome* \
-t my_schema.amazing* \
-t my_schema.great -f backup.bat postgres
When you restore, it won't bother trying to restore something it didn't back up, so that part should be handled somewhat natively.
I have 2 backup files and I want to merge all this data on my database.
I try to use pg_restore but when I use with the second database file I lost the first data set.
Look for my command:
pg_restore -U postgres -c --if-exists -d ravpacheco_db "C:\Users\ravpacheco\xpto1.backup"
I also search all options flags for pg_restore command but I can't find some usefull thing
My problem is with my pg_dump command. If I created a backup file only with data my restore will work
Now I'm using this pg_dump command
pg_dump --column-inserts --data-only --table=<table> <database>
I resolved my problem using this stackoverflow thread
I want to get an export of my Heroku application's Postgres database, however I want to exclude one table. Is this possible?
Here is the command I use to export my entire Postgres database:
$ PGUSER=my_username PGPASSWORD=my_password heroku pg:pull DATABASE_URL my-application-name`
Maybe there is a way to exclude one table, or specify a list of tables to include?
In normal pg dump command you can specify the tables to include with -t option and exclude tables with -T option.
Can you try this :
$ PGPASSWORD=mypassword pg_dump -Fc --no-acl --no-owner -T *table you want to exclude* -h localhost -U myuser mydb > mydb.dump
Here is the document copied from postgreql official document.
-T table
--exclude-table=table
Do not dump any tables matching the table pattern. The pattern is interpreted according to the same rules as for -t. -T can be given more than once to exclude tables matching any of several patterns.
When both -t and -T are given, the behavior is to dump just the tables that match at least one -t switch but no -T switches. If -T appears without -t, then tables matching -T are excluded from what is otherwise a normal dump.
here is link for your reference
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/app-pgdump.html