Re: can recs be transferred between DBs ?

On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 8:56 AM dfgpostgres <dfgpostgres3@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> The managers tell me that they want to restore "beta" back to the main DB.
> I know I could do this with something like a perl script, making
> connections to both DBs and transferring them over using select statements
> in "beta_archive" and insert statements in the main DB.  But is there a
> better way, something inherent in PG SQL that allows me to do something
> like this ?
>
>
pg_dump / pg_restore are the core tools at your disposal.  The ability to
specify --inserts and --on-conflict-do-nothing on pg_dump in particular
make at least attempting this against a copy of the backups quite appealing
before trying to write a more targeted transfer script.

David J.