Re: pg_dump quietly ignore missing tables - is it bug?

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 6:34 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Oleksandr Shulgin <oleksandr(dot)shulgin(at)zalando(dot)de> writes:
> > I think this is a bit over-engineered (apart from the fact that
> > processSQLNamePattern is also used in two dozen of places in
> > psql/describe.c and all of them must be touched for this patch to
> > compile).
>
> > Also, the new --table-if-exists options seems to be doing what the old
> > --table did, and I'm not really sure I underestand what --table does
> > now.
>
> I'm pretty sure we had agreed *not* to change the default behavior of -t.
>

My patch does that, in the case of no-wildcards -t argument.

However, it can be fixed easily: just drop that strcspn() call, and then
default behavior is the same for both wildcard and exact matches, since
--strict-include is off by default.

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Alex