For the use case of copying between databases within the same instance, it seems the only way to do this is using mysqldump
, which you have to pass some special flags so that it works without SUPER privileges. This is how I copied from one database to another:
DB_HOST=... # set to 127.0.0.1 if using cloud-sql proxy
DB_USER=...
DB_PASSWORD=...
SOURCE_DB=...
DESTINATION_DB=...
mysqldump --hex-blob --skip-triggers --set-gtid-purged=OFF --column-statistics=0 -h $DB_HOST -u $DB_USER -p"$DB_PASSWORD" $SOURCE_DB \
| mysql -h $DB_HOST -u $DB_USER -p"$DB_PASSWORD" $DESTINATION_DB
Or if you just want to dump to a local file and do something else with it later:
mysqldump --hex-blob --skip-triggers --set-gtid-purged=OFF --column-statistics=0 -h $DB_HOST -u $DB_USER -p"$DB_PASSWORD" $SOURCE_DB \
> $SOURCE_DB.sql
See https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/import-export/exporting#export-mysqldump for more info.