From: Craig James <craig_james@emolecules.com>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: restore
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:50:35 -0700
Message-ID: <4CAB8F9B.70401@emolecules.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CAB698B.4040402@iii.com>
References: <4CAB698B.4040402@iii.com>
On 10/5/10 11:08 AM, Dinesh Bhandary wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is there an easy way to restore to a new table where the column name have been changed but data remains the same?
> For example I am trying to restore from existing system, table1(col1) to table1(col2) and it is erroring out on the new column name even though it is a data only restore. I was just wondering if there is a quick way to bypass this. Let me know.
If your data file is plain text with a COPY or INSERT commands, do this using psql:
begin;
alter table1 rename col2 to col1;
\i datafile.sql
alter table1 rename col1 to col2;
commit;
Craig
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