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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