How to create a backup of a single table in a postgres database?

you can use this command

pg_dump --table=yourTable --data-only --column-inserts yourDataBase > file.sql

you should change yourTable, yourDataBase to your case

As an addition to Frank Heiken's answer, if you wish to use INSERT statements instead of copy from stdin, then you should specify the --inserts flag

pg_dump --host localhost --port 5432 --username postgres --format plain --verbose --file "<abstract_file_path>" --table public.tablename --inserts dbname

Notice that I left out the --ignore-version flag, because it is deprecated.

Use the following command to get the compressed version of the table dump :

pg_dump -h localhost -p 5432 -U <username> -d <dbname> -t <tablename> -Fc -f backup.out