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Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:32:29 -0700
From: Dinesh Bhandary <dbhandary@iii.com>
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To: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
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Subject: Re: restore
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  Awesome, this will work. It won't retain the column name in insert 
into statement. I was not sure if this will work with postgres 8.2.5 but 
it does.

Thanks.

Dinesh
On 10/5/2010 11:15 AM, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Dinesh Bhandary<dbhandary@iii.com>  wrote:
>
>> Is there an easy way to restore to a new table where the column
>> name have been changed but data remains the same?
>
> Restore to the old name and then rename the column?
>
> Access the backup file and change the COPY statement to the new
> column name?
>
> If you can redo the dump, you don't mind the load running a little
> slower, and the column order is the same -- dump with the --inserts
> switch?
>
> -Kevin
>
>
>