Transfer data between databases with PostgreSQL

Question

I need to transfer some data from another database. The old database is called paw1.moviesDB and the new database is paw1. The schema of each table are the following.

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Answer 1

Actually, there is some possibility to send a table data from one PostgreSQL database to another. I use the procedural language plperlu (unsafe Perl procedural language) for it.

Description (all was done on a Linux server):

1. Create plperlu language in your database A

2. Then PostgreSQL can join some Perl modules through series of the following commands at the end of postgresql.conf for the database A:

   plperl.on_init='use DBI;'
   plperl.on_init='use DBD::Pg;'
   

3. You build a function in A like this:

   CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION send_data( VARCHAR )
   RETURNS character varying AS
   $BODY$
   my $command = $_[0] || die 'No SQL command!';
   my $connection_string =
   "dbi:Pg:dbname=your_dbase;host=192.168.1.2;port=5432;";
   $dbh = DBI->connect($connection_string,'user','pass',
   {AutoCommit=>0,RaiseError=>1,PrintError=>1,pg_enable_utf8=>1,}
   );
   my $sql = $dbh-> prepare( $command );
   eval { $sql-> execute() };
   my $error = $dbh-> state;
   $sql-> finish;
   if ( $error ) { $dbh-> rollback() } else {  $dbh-> commit() }
   $dbh-> disconnect();
   $BODY$
   LANGUAGE plperlu VOLATILE;
   

And then you can call the function inside database A:

SELECT send_data( 'INSERT INTO jm (jm) VALUES (''zzzzzz'')' );

And the value "zzzzzz" will be added into table "jm" in database B.