Great, thanks to you both.

Stephen R. Crawford
Center for Environmental Informatics
The Pennsylvania State University


On Oct 14, 2014, at 8:58 AM, Ben Madin <[email protected]> wrote:

> If you mean from one postgis database to another postgis database I think you 
> will find pg_dump most helpful using the -t flag for the table you want.
> 
> If they are both on the same cluster:
> 
> pg_dump -t myTable myDatabase1 | psql myDatabase2
> 
> (caveat is make sure that the second database has postgis extension installed 
> first)
> 
> Otherwise, dump to a file 
> 
> pg_dump -t myTable myDatabase1 | gzip -9 > myTable.sql.gz
> 
> unzip and reload into second database.
> 
> cheers
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
> On 14 October 2014 00:45, Stephen Crawford <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello All,
>> 
>> I want to copy a postgis table from one database to another.  Is dumping to 
>> a shapefile the best way to do this? Any other method? Pros and cons?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Steve
>> 
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>> Center for Environmental Informatics
>> The Pennsylvania State University
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