How to create a backup of a single table in a postgres database

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Is there a way to create a backup of a single table within a database using postgres  And how  Does this also work with the pg dump command

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I was trying to run pg dump from within psql command prompt and I was not able to trace output file anywhere on my ubuntu 20 04 box  I tried finding by find   -name  quot myfilename sql quot   Instead When I tried pg dump from  home ubuntu  I found my output file in  home ubuntu

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you can use this command pg dump --table yourTable --data-only --column-inserts yourDataBase  gt  file sql  you should change yourTable  yourDataBase to your case

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As an addition to Frank Heiken s answer  if you wish to use INSERT statements instead of copy from stdin  then you should specify the --inserts flag  pg dump --host localhost --port 5432 --username postgres --format plain --verbose --file   lt abstract file path gt   --table public tablename --inserts dbname  Notice that I left out the --ignore-version flag  because it is deprecated

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If you are on Ubuntu    Login to your postgres user sudo su postgres pg dump -d  lt database name gt  -t  lt table name gt   gt  file sql   Make sure that you are executing the command where the postgres user have write permissions  Example   tmp   Edit  If you want to dump the  sql in another computer  you may need to consider skipping the owner information getting saved into the  sql file   You can use pg dump --no-owner -d  lt database name gt  -t  lt table name gt   gt  file sql

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pg dump -h localhost -p 5432 -U postgres -d mydb -t my table     backup sql   You can take the backup of a single table but I would suggest to take the backup of whole database and then restore whichever table you need  It is always good to have backup of whole database   9 ways to use pg dump

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If you prefer a graphical user interface  you can use pgAdmin III  Linux Windows OS X   Simply right click on the table of your choice  then  backup   It will create a pg dump command for you

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Use --table to tell pg dump what table it has to backup  pg dump --host localhost --port 5432 --username postgres --format plain --verbose --file  quot  lt abstract file path gt  quot  --table public tablename dbname

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