Answers for "postgres and how to copy data from one table into another table"

postgres copy table from one schema to another

create table schema2.the_table (like schema1.the_table including all);
insert into schema2.the_table
select * 
from schema1.the_table;

copy from one table to another postgres using matching column

UPDATE Table2 --format schema.table_name
SET 
ref_id2 = table1.ref_id1
FROM table1 -- mention schema name
WHERE table1.id = table2.id
AND 
table1.a_ref1 = table2.b_ref1;