# Exporting and importing managed plans for Aurora PostgreSQL
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You can export your managed plans and import them into another DB instance. 

**To export managed plans**  
An authorized user can copy any subset of the `apg_plan_mgmt.plans` table to another table, and then save it using the `pg_dump` command. The following is an example.

```
CREATE TABLE plans_copy AS SELECT * 
FROM apg_plan_mgmt.plans [ WHERE predicates ] ;
```

```
% pg_dump --table apg_plan_mgmt.plans_copy -Ft mysourcedatabase > plans_copy.tar
```

```
DROP TABLE apg_plan_mgmt.plans_copy;
```

**To import managed plans**

1. Copy the .tar file of the exported managed plans to the system where the plans are to be restored.

1. Use the `pg_restore` command to copy the tar file into a new table. 

   ```
   % pg_restore --dbname mytargetdatabase -Ft plans_copy.tar
   ```

1. Merge the `plans_copy` table with the `apg_plan_mgmt.plans` table, as shown in the following example.
**Note**  
In some cases, you might dump from one version of the `apg_plan_mgmt` extension and restore into a different version. In these cases, the columns in the plans table might be different. If so, name the columns explicitly instead of using SELECT \$1. 

   ```
   INSERT INTO apg_plan_mgmt.plans SELECT * FROM plans_copy
    ON CONFLICT ON CONSTRAINT plans_pkey
    DO UPDATE SET
    status = EXCLUDED.status,
    enabled = EXCLUDED.enabled,
    -- Save the most recent last_used date 
    --
    last_used = CASE WHEN EXCLUDED.last_used > plans.last_used 
    THEN EXCLUDED.last_used ELSE plans.last_used END, 
    -- Save statistics gathered by evolve_plan_baselines, if it ran:
    --
    estimated_startup_cost = EXCLUDED.estimated_startup_cost,
    estimated_total_cost = EXCLUDED.estimated_total_cost,
    planning_time_ms = EXCLUDED.planning_time_ms,
    execution_time_ms = EXCLUDED.execution_time_ms,
    total_time_benefit_ms = EXCLUDED.total_time_benefit_ms, 
    execution_time_benefit_ms = EXCLUDED.execution_time_benefit_ms;
   ```

1. Reload the managed plans into shared memory and remove the temporary plans table.

   ```
   SELECT apg_plan_mgmt.reload(); -- refresh shared memory
   DROP TABLE plans_copy;
   ```