Just as the title says, I want to duplicate one table from a completely separate database in phpPgAdmin to another one. I have tried two ways but both did not work for me:
Tried "Create table like" (database >> table >> create table like)
this seems to can only duplicate a table within the database
Tried export and import
I tried to export the table I want, then heading over to the other database and try to import in an empty table. but the error i am getting is either "Import error: File could not be uploaded to the server phppgadmin" or "Import error: Failed to automatically determine the file format."
you can use pg_dump , which extract PostgreSQL database/table and the pipe it directly to another server/database
pg_dump -t table_name source_db | psql target_db
for more info read pg_dump documentation.
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I am at a loss. I am on a mac using PG Admin 4 with PostgreSQL I tried to use the import/export data wizard when you right click on the table I created...and get this error ERROR: extra data after last expected column...all of the colomns match up and there is no additional data. I don't know what needs to change...
So then I tried to create it with the quarry tool with the following code (renaming things to put here):
create schema schema_name;
create table schema_name.tablename( column1 text, column2 text...); ***all the columns are a text data type***
copy schema_name.tablename
from '/Users/me/downloads/filename.csv'
delimiter ',' header csv;
and get this error message:
ERROR: could not open file "/Users/me/downloads/filename.csv" for reading: Permission denied
HINT: COPY FROM instructs the PostgreSQL server process to read a file. You may want a client-side facility such as psql's \copy.
SQL state: 42501
Going to properties for that database, and then to security, and privileges I made public all privileges. But that did nothing. And so I am here to ask yall for help.
Successfully import the data from the CSV.
I am trying to migrate files over from one remote database- Scratxh to another remote database. I am using pg_dump and psql to download an .sql file then using psql to recreate the table in the new database - SourceData. I want to copy the table only. I used -t to indicate this, but I still get these errors :
ERROR schema public does not exist
ERROR permission denied to set session authorization.
These are the commands I used.
pg_dump -t table -d Scratch -U me -h host.com > table.sql
psql -d SourceData -U me -h host.com < table.sql
I know that psql command uses the .sql text file to recreate the table, so I tried editing this file to get rid of any mentions of the schema 'public'.
It didn't help. I got the same error.
Has anyone else encountered this?
It is not clear from your comment when the error happens. I will assume it happens on the second command. In that case, the first error shown might be because the second database is not ready to receive the data, i.e.: the SQL contains INSERT statement to a table that doesn't exist yet in SourceData.
You need to create the table in the new database before being able to import data into it.
If you pg_dump the entire database, you would probably not encounter this exact problem.
I have tables from different databases , and i want to create a data warehouse database that contains table replicas from different tables from different databases. I want the data in the warehouse to be synced with the data from the other tables everyday.I am using postgresql
I tried to do this using psql :
pg_dump -t table_to_copy source_db | psql target_db
However it didnt work as it keeps stating errors like table does no exist.
It all worked when i dumped the whole dabatase not only a single table, but however i want the data to be synced and i want to copy tables from different databases not the whole database.
How can i do this?
Thanks!
Probably you need FDW - Foreign Data Wrapper. You can create foreign tables for different external db in different schemas on local db. All tables accessible by local queries. For storing snap you can use local tables with just INSERT INTO local_table_YYYY_MM SELECT * FROM remote_table; .
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pg_dump -t <table name> <source DB> | psql -d <target DB>
(Check the table name correctly and it says for you , table doesn't exist)
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pg_dump allows the dumping of only select tables:
pg_dump -Fc -f output.dump -t tablename databasename
(dump 'tablename' from database 'databasename' into file 'output.dump' in pg_dumps binary custom format)
You can restore that pg_restore:
pg_restore -d databasename output.dump
If the table itself already exists in your target database, you can import only the rows by adding the --data-only flag.
Dblink
You can not perform cross database query like SQL Server, PostgreSQL does not support this. DbLink extension of PostgreSQL which is used to connect one database to another database. You have to install and configure DbLink to execute cross database query.
Here is the step by step script and example for executing cross database query in PostgreSQL. Please visit this post:
I have a database named Extension
A schema named public
A tables named extension and mfo_3
Here's what happen. When I try to export the database from the schema not the public schema in phppgadmin, It works!
But when I tried to to export within the schema or the public schema. Sample, I tried to export the table named mfo_3's data, I get an error
Dumping of complex table and schema names on Windows is not supported. Phppgadmin.
Is there any solution for me to export my specific table's data?
BTW, I'm using the version 9.3.0 of PostgreSQL
I am also getting same error in phpPgAdmin.
But there is a command line way to export:
Open command window and change directory to C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.3\bin
To export whole database run: pg_dump.exe mydb > db.sql
If pg_dump is using operating system username instead of PostgreSql db username, use -U switch like: pg_dump.exe -U dbusername mydb > db.sql
Reference: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/app-pgdump.html
This error only appears when underline exists in the table name. Rename the table and try again.
Edit:
This error only appears when you want to dump a part of database (on windows). Try again with entire database and extract the specific part from the dump.
I have a little problem. My friend has a database with over 10 tables and each table has over 90-100 records.
I can't find a workaround to export the records (to put in a SQL file something like this: INSERT INTO .... VALUES ... for each existing records) from his tables to import in my database.
How to do that ?
I tried: right click on a table -> Script Table as -> INSERT TO -> File ...
but it only generate the INSERT statement.
There are a solution ? or this feature is only for commercial version ?
UPDATE
You can use BCP command with command prompt like this
For export: bcp ADatabase.dbo.OneTable out d:\test\OneTable.bcp -c -Usa -Ppassword
For import: bcp ADatabase.dbo.OneTable in d:\test\OneTable.bcp -c -Usa -Ppassword
these commands will create a BCP file which contains records for specified table. You can import using existing BCP file into another database
If you use remote database then:
bcp ADatabaseRemote.dbo.OneTableRemote out d:\test\OneTableRemote.bcp -Slocalhost/SQLExpress -Usa -Ppassword
Instead of localhost/SQLExpress, you can use localhost or other server name...
Probably the simplest way to do this would be to run a SELECT statement that outputs to a file. Then you can import that data into your database.
For simple moves, I have also done a copy/paste manually. Sometimes it is better to use Excel as a staging platform before pasting it into the new database. You may need to create a temporary table in your new database that matches up exactly with the data you are pasting over. For example, I usually don't put a PK on the temp table at first and make the PK field just an INT. That way the copy will go smoother.
In the corporate world, you would use SSIS to move this data around.
a couple of ways you could do this. One,select everything from each table and save the results as a csv or delimited file (you can do this from sql management studio). You can also script the tables as create and copy the scripts over to the new database, assuming it is a sql server also. Then for import use the load infile statement. You may have to google the syntax for sql server but I know this works in mysql and oracle. haven't tried it in sql server yet.
LOAD DATA INFILE 'myfile'
INTO TABLE stuff
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
SET id = NULL;
Or if you are going to another sql server use the sql export import wizard.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms141209.aspx