Is thre a way?

Look at the cheat-sheet:

http://www.postgresonline.com/journal/index.php?/archives/63-PostgreSQL-
8.3-Pg_dump-Pg_Restore-Cheatsheet-Overview.html

From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Anderson dos
Santos Donda
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 1:28 PM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: [GENERAL] Is thre a way?

Hi o/

I have a table with 2000 names and emails.. and I did UPDATE list SET
email = '' without the WHERE and now all rows is null in column email..

I have a backup made with pg_dump.. is there a way to restore only the
email data?

Thanks!!

On 06/05/2009 21:28, Anderson dos Santos Donda wrote:

I have a table with 2000 names and emails.. and I did UPDATE list SET
email = '' without the WHERE and now all rows is null in column
email..

<pedant mode>
They're not null, they're just filled with empty strings.... :-)
</pedant mode>

I have a backup made with pg_dump.. is there a way to restore only
the email data?

If the backup is in PLAIN (text) format, you can copy-and-paste the
relevant bits into a new script, and run that through psql.

If it's in one of the binary formats, I think pg_restore lets you choose
which objects you want to restore.

Either way, you ought to be OK. You may find it easiest to drop the
table first, restore it from the backup, and then restore any foreign
key dependencies.

Ray.

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Hi o/

I have a table with 2000 names and emails.. and I did UPDATE list SET email
= '' without the WHERE and now all rows is null in column email..

I have a backup made with pg_dump.. is there a way to restore only the email
data?

what format of pg_dump?

If a binary dump use pg_restore to restore the table you want to a
scratch database then use dblink or copy to get that into a temp table
in the database you want.

If a text dump use sed (or an interactive editor) to extract the table
data you want, load it into a temp table

finally do an
UPDATE ... FROM ....
to fix the losses.

I had to do this a few months ago.

My backup is PLAIN(text) format... i'll try to do with sed...

Thanks for all o/

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> wrote: