You can copy a table from one schema to another by doing something like
this:
SET search_path TO schema1,schema2;
CREATE TABLE schema2.mytable AS SELECT * FROM schema1.mytable;
Tim
Mike G. wrote:
>Someone once posted to a list a sql script that could be run to move / rename a table from one schema to another.
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>Don't remember if it was the General or Hacker list. Sorry.
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>On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 10:26:45AM -0700, Michael Fuhr wrote:
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>>On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 05:18:49PM +0100, Andreas Neumann wrote:
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>>>Is there a convenient way to move a table (or a bunch of tables) to a
>>>different schema?
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>>It might be possible by fiddling with the system catalogs, although
>>I haven't tried it myself.
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>>I'm just brainstorming now, but you could update the table's
>>relnamespace column in pg_class. That alone probably wouldn't
>>suffice, however -- I'd also look for dependent objects in pg_depend,
>>pg_index, etc., and see if they needed to have columns updated as
>>well. Maybe somebody else can think of a complete list.
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>>I see that the TODO list has the following item under ALTER:
>>"Allow objects to be moved to different schemas."
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>>--
>>Michael Fuhr
>>http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/
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