"Johnson, Shaunn" <SJohnson6(at)bcbsm(dot)com> writes:
> I must be missing something simple: is it written
> somewhere that I can not dump a table that starts
> with pg_*?
Yeah, right in the pg_dump sources, about line 2100 of pg_dump.c
in release 7.2 ;-)
Why would you want to do a pg_dump of a system catalog, anyway?
You couldn't restore it. Perhaps what you really want is pg_dump's
-s (schema only) option.
regards, tom lane