Question

I want to dump a database.

I have three tables:

table1
table2
table3

From table1 i want the schema plus data.

From table2 and table3 i just want the schema.

How do i do that?

Answer 1

To get data from just a few tables:

pg_dump myDatabase –inserts -a -t table1 -t table2 > backup.sql;

pg_dump myDatabase –inserts -a -t seq1 -t seq2 > backupSequences.sql;

Parameters descriptions:

-a, –data-only dump only the data, not the schema

-t, –table=TABLE dump the named table(s) only

–inserts dump data as INSERT commands, rather than
COPY

This is what i wanted 🙂

Thanks all!