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From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: timalou2@netcourrier.com
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Restore a backup into a new schema
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:34:39 -0600
Message-ID: <dcc563d10806161934l5a61ad40l761705fabb31ffe3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mnet1.1213349588.23549.timalou2@netcourrier.com>
References: <mnet1.1213349588.23549.timalou2@netcourrier.com>

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 3:33 AM,  <timalou2@netcourrier.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to restore a backup schema to another schema ?
>
> For instance I create a backup of a database called "source" with its public schema with pg_backup
>
> I want to restore this backup in a database called "dest" into a new schema called public2

Easiest way is to edit the pg_dump file by hand or use sed / awk to
change it on the fly.

If there's a lot of data and that makes it tough to do that, look into
dumping the schema and data separately, but this doesn't always work
quite right for some complex schemas.



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