pg_restore -t table doesn't restore PKEY

"Jan C." <chaljan@gmail.com> writes:

I have dump of an entire database and I'm trying to restore only one named
table:

pg_restore --format=c -C -U myUser -d myDB /tmp/mydump -t my_table

The command completes without errors/warnings but the resulting table in the
database is missing the PKEY constraint !

Use pg_restore -l, then extract the lines relevant to your table, then
pg_restore -L to restore just the named items.

I think there's a TODO to make pg_restore's -t switch work more like
pg_dump's, but at the moment they're really quite different animals.
pg_restore doesn't have any logic about "oh, if he asked for this
item I bet he wants that one too".

regards, tom lane

So I'd have to do:

pg_restore  -l /tmp/mydump | grep my_table  > /tmp/mytable_lines
pg_restore  --format=c -C -U myUser -d myDB /tmp/mydump -L /tmp/mytable_lines

It looks like I have to use "grep" to look for my table and not "-t
my_table" because the PKEY constraint is NOT listed when I do
pg_restore  -l /tmp/mydump -t my_table

In any case, shouldn't the documentation describe more the pg_restore
-t command ? It's really misleading and one can discover this only by
running into problems.

Thanks for your help,

Jan