How to export a single table in PostgreSQL

Example of exporting a single table. In the directory-format:

pg_dump -Fd mydb -t myschema.mytable -v -f  /data/mydirectory -j 2

Where

-Fd = export into a directory-format archive
-t = table name
-v = verbose
-f = the target directory
-j = number of export jobs

Note that -f can be omitted for file based output formats.
Since I am using the directory output format however, I am required to use it, and it specifies the target directory instead of a file. In this case the directory is created by pg_dump and it must not exist before.

In plain text file format:

pg_dump mydb -n 'myschema' -a -Fp  -t mytable | gzip > mydb_myschema_mytable.gz

Where

-Fp = plain text format
-a  = data only, no metadata. In the case of plain text, this means no "create table" statement is generated
-t  = table name

When the export is done, you may unpack the mydb_myschema_mytable.gz and you will observe that the file contains COPY directives for each row.

In custom format:

pg_dump mydb -n 'myschema' -a -Fc  -t mytable | gzip > mydb_myschema_mytable_custom.gz

Where all the options are identical to the plain text format, except for

-Fc = custom data format