Re: Copy entire schema A to a different schema B

On 2/11/19 8:00 AM, Tiffany Thang wrote:
> Hi,
> To copy the source schema A to target schema B in the same database in 
> PG10.3, I use psql to dump schema A and manually removes anything 
> specific to the schema in the text dump file before importing into 
> schema B. How do I achieve the same exporting from Schema A and 
> importing into schema B using pg_dump with the -Fc option? Since the 

Use the -f option to pg_restore:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/app-pgrestore.html

So something like:

pg_restore -f text_file.sql the_binary_file.out

This will get you back to a text file you can manipulate.

> dump file generated is binary, I could not make modifications to the 
> file. Is the procedure the same in version 11?
> 
> Thank.
> 
> Tiff


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