You don't need "-t history" on the psql part. It doesn't do what you think
it does, and it's reading the next part ("history") as the database name.
try:
pg_dump -h <hostname1> -U postgres -t history DATABASENAME | psql -h
hostname2 -U postgres DATABASENAME > db.sql
Derrick
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Hany ABOU-GHOURY <hgho...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to update / refresh one table (history) only from prod.
> database to my test environment database
> my query as follows:
>
> pg_dump -h <hostname1> -U postgres -t history DATABASENAME | psql -h
> hostname2 -U postgres -t history DATABASENAME > db.sql
>
> but I am getting the following error
>
> psql: FATAL: database "history" does not exist
>
>
> Can you help please?
>
> what would be the script if I want more than one table (3 tables to
> refresh)
>
> Kind regards
>
