Re: selective copy

Just create a table with a select from the bad table and then dump the filtered table.

2/27/2003 5:58:14 AM, "Matthew Nuzum" <cobalt@bearfruit.org> wrote:

>Hey group,
>I know you can't do a selective copy but I was wondering if someone can
>suggest the most effective way to get the same result.
>
>What I have is a lot of text data with unknown characters. Quotes,
>apostrophes, carriage returns and etc.  There could be hundreds or thousands
>of rows in the table but I only want one or two.  I need to get the data
>into an external file so it can be transported to another database and
>re-inserted.
>
>What I've done in the past is dump the table's data using pg_dump -t table
>and using INSERTS instead of copy and then grep the results so that I only
>get the desired line.  That only works when I'm using simple data that
>doesn't wrap to different lines.
>
>I'm doing this to restore data from a backup :`(
>
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>Matthew Nuzum
>www.bearfruit.org
>cobalt@bearfruit.org
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