| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pg_dump a specific schema |
| Date: | 2003-01-10 21:45:16 |
| Message-ID: | 200301102145.h0ALjGf11749@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Neil Conway wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 13:32, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I can't think of any logic that would allow a table to be skipped on a
> > dump, same with namespaces.
>
> Uh, what? The issue is that:
>
> pg_dump -t some_non_existent_table_name
>
> produces an empty dump (well, it has a 3 lines of comments, but no SQL).
> Similarly:
>
> pg_dump -n some_non_existent_schema_name
>
> also produces an empty dump. I'm asking if that's the correct behavior:
> perhaps we should throw an error instead?
We certainly should throw an error!
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