My backup is PLAIN(text) format... i'll try to do with sed...

Thanks for all o/

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Jasen Betts <ja...@xnet.co.nz> wrote:

> On 2009-05-06, Anderson dos Santos Donda <andersondo...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hi o/
> >
> > I have a table with 2000 names and emails.. and I did UPDATE list SET
> email
> >= '' without the WHERE and now all rows is null in column email..
> >
> >
> > I have a backup made with pg_dump.. is there a way to restore only the
> email
> > data?
>
> what format of pg_dump?
>
> If a binary dump use pg_restore to restore the table you want to a
> scratch database then use dblink or copy to get that into a temp table
> in the database you want.
>
> If a text dump use sed (or an interactive editor) to extract the table
> data you want, load it into a temp table
>
> finally do an
> UPDATE ... FROM ....
> to fix the losses.
>
> I had to do this a few months ago.
>
>
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