Re: Excluding schema from backup

Bill Moran <wmoran(at)collaborativefusion(dot)com> writes:
> In response to "Stphane Schildknecht" <stephane(dot)schildknecht(at)postgresqlfr(dot)org>:
>> pg_dump -U postgres MYDB -N "_MYDB" gives me a dump including that schema.
>>
>> I then tried pg_dump -U postgres MYDB -n "_MYDB" and then got "pg_dump:
>> No matching schemas were found"

> My guess is that you're hitting case-folding issues. Try:
> pg_dump -U postgres MYDB -n \"_MYDB\"

Yeah, see the last example in the 8.2 pg_dump reference page:

To specify an upper-case or mixed-case name in -t and related
switches, you need to double-quote the name; else it will be folded to
lower case (see Patterns). But double quotes are special to the shell,
so in turn they must be quoted. Thus, to dump a single table with a
mixed-case name, you need something like

$ pg_dump -t '"MixedCaseName"' mydb > mytab.sql

regards, tom lane