[ADMIN] Restoring selected records from backup file

[Piyush Lenka]

hi,

1. How can we restore selected records from a plain text backup
(backup.sql).
2. Is it possible using psql. If yes how
Please Help

Thanks & Regards
Piyush

[davidh]

The only way I know of doing this is to restore the backup to a separate database or table and doing a "SELECT INTO" statement. The only caveat is that you need to make sure you delete the outdated records from the prod table. To do this you may have to temporarily disable foreign key enforcing.

David.

hi,
1. How can we restore selected records from a plain text backup (backup.sql).
2. Is it possible using psql. If yes how
Please Help
Thanks & Regards
Piyush