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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition
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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition

by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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Logical – from the script dump

Once you have located the PostgreSQL server on which you will prepare and verify the data to restore (the staging server), you can proceed like this:

  1. Reload the script in full on the staging server, as follows:
psql -f myscriptdump.sql
  1. From the recovered database server, dump the table, its data, and all the definitions of the dropped table into a new file:
pg_dump -t mydroppedtable -F c mydatabase > dumpfile
  1. Now, recreate the table in the original server and database, using parallel tasks to speed things up:
pg_restore -d mydatabase -j 2 dumpfile
The last step can be executed remotely without having to transfer the dumpfile between systems. Just add connection parameters to pg_restore, as in the following ...
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ISBN: 9781788474924Supplemental Content