Re: db partial dumping with pg_dump

Actually, loading all this stuff into COPY is not the way to go, I
think.  

Informix had:
UNLOAD TO 'filename'SELECT ...

I have to admit, this is a superior way to do thing compared to what we
have.  Is is possible for us to get:
COPY TO 'filename'SELECT ...

It allows any arbitrary table, group by, even order by combination.


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Hannu Krosing wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 20:24, Tom Lane wrote:
> > 
> > What would seem to make sense is adding a WHERE-clause option to
> > COPY TO, and then you could go
> >     COPY table TO 'myfile' WHERE ...
> 
> What about :
> 
> COPY table TO 'myfile' [ WHERE cond ] [ AS INSERT [ WITH COLUMN ] ];
> 
> to get the data as INSERT INTO statements (pg_dump -d), with optional
> column list (pg_dump -D)
> 
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> 
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