Re: Shell script to extract a table from a plain text dump

Argh! That's some sed coolness :)

Chris

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 04:46:12PM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>
>>If you have huge plain text dumps, and just want to restore one table
>>it's usually painful. Attached is a small shell script that can take a
>>plain text dump and extract a single table's COPY data commands from it.
>>
>>If people think it's interesting and should be developed, I can pop it
>>on pgfoundry or something.
>
>
> Hmm, what I usually use is:
>
> bzcat $file | sed -ne "/^COPY \"$table\" /,/^\\\.\$/p"
>
> However, error checking and wrapping it into a script is a good idea.
> If it got given a couple of switches to control the output, maybe we
> can have a pg_restore for text dumps :)
>
> Have a nice day,