May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
600 pages
20h 46m
English
Restoring a single table from a logical backup is relatively easy, as each logical object is backed up separately from the others, and its data and metadata can be filtered out.
However, a physical backup is composed of a set of binary data files, in a complex storage format that can be interpreted by a PostgreSQL engine.
This means that the only way to extract individual objects from it, at present, is to restore the backup on a new instance, and then make a logical dump, as explained in the previous recipe: there's no way to restore a single table from a physical backup in just a single step.
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