From: | Neil Conway <nconway(at)klamath(dot)dyndns(dot)org> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: pg_dump doesn't report failure |
Date: | 2002-03-08 02:58:36 |
Message-ID: | 1015556316.19018.88.camel@jiro |
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On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 21:21, Tom Lane wrote:
> I dunno. I think the direction we were planning to go in was that -t's
> argument should be treated as a pattern to match against table names
> (eg, a regexp). It's not clear that zero matches are an error when
> you are thinking in those terms. On the other hand I can see your point
> about not realizing your "backup" isn't.
Can't the regex mode be made a different switch (say, -T or -E)? In
addition to allowing better error reporting, I'm uncomfortable with
saying "a table name must consist of non-regex special characters",
which is basically what this implies.
Cheers,
Neil
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Neil Conway <neilconway(at)rogers(dot)com>
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