Completely copying a postgres table with SQL

Question

DISCLAIMER: This question is similar to the stack overflow question here, but none of those answers work for my problem, as I will explain later.

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Answer 1

The closest "miracle command" is something like

pg_dump -t tablename | sed -r 's/\btablename\b/tablename_copy/' | psql -f -

In particular, this takes care of creating the indexes after loading the table data.

But that doesn't reset the sequences; you will have to script that yourself.