Recovery of a dropped/damaged table
You may drop or even damage a table in some way. Tables could be damaged for physical reasons, such as disk corruption, or they could also be damaged by running poorly specified UPDATE or DELETE commands, which update too many rows or overwrite critical data.
It's a common request to recover from this situation from a backup.
How to do it…
The methods differ, depending on the type of backup you have available. If you have multiple types of backup, you have a choice.
Logical – from the custom dump taken with pg_dump -F c
If you've taken a logical backup using pg_dump in a custom file, then you can simply extract the table you want from the dumpfile, like the following:
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