Hi Paulos,
I'm not sure if I got it right. There are two scenarios:
1/ You do DUMP + RESTORE and information in restored tables is
different than in original table.
This would be weird. I can only imagine that DUMP failed or was
incomplete but otherwise there should be no issue
2/ You do DUMP + modification + RESTORE and modification is not in
restored tables.
This is also correct since modifications are not included in DUMP. I
suggest to make backup via DUMP after modification of those tables.
Regards,
Jaromir
On Thu, 2021-03-18 at 15:39 +0200, Dr Paulos Nyirenda wrote:
 Good afternoon,
 I am having trouble maintaing my English version of mail_template
 table in the FRED
 database backup and restore, can you help ?
 I often need to backup the FRED registry system database and I am
 using
 #pg_dump -U fred fred > fred-backup-file.sql
 To restore that database I use
 #sudo -u postgres psql
 #DROP DATABASE fred;
 #CREATE DATABASE fred;
 #\q
 #psql -U fred -d fred -f fred-backup-file.sql
 However, I find in almost all cases that I lose any updates that I
 made on mail_template table
 when I restore this way on the new restoration.
 Is there a way that I can keep the most resent mail_template updates
 between backup and
 restore?
 I have tried to save the mail_template using a dump like
 #pg_dump -U fred fred -t mail_template > fred-mail_template-bkp.sql
 but I am unable to restore this because I get the error that there
 are too many dependencies
 on mail_template when I try to drop the table and then use pg_restore
 -t.
 So, what is the best way of moving with my desired mail_template in
 FRED?
 Can I do this even between different schemas of backup and restore ?
 Regards,
 Paulos
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