How do I copy data from one table to another in postgres using copy command

You cannot easily do that, but there's also no need to do so.

CREATE TABLE mycopy AS
SELECT * FROM mytable;

CREATE TABLE mycopy (LIKE mytable INCLUDING ALL);

INSERT INTO mycopy
SELECT * FROM mytable;

If you need to select only some columns or reorder them, you can do this:

INSERT INTO mycopy(colA, colB)
SELECT col1, col2 FROM mytable;

You can also do a selective pg_dump and restore of just the target table.

If the columns are the same (names and datatypes) in both tables then you can use the following

INSERT INTO receivingtable (SELECT * FROM sourcetable WHERE column1='parameter' AND column2='anotherparameter');

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