Re: proposal: possibility to read dumped table's name from file

Hi

Perhaps this feature could co-exist with a full blown configuration for
>> pg_dump, but even then there's certainly issues with what's proposed-
>> how would you handle explicitly asking for a table which is named
>> " mytable" to be included or excluded? Or a table which has a newline
>> in it? Using a standardized format which supports the full range of
>> what we do in a table name, explicitly and clearly, would address these
>> issues and also give us the flexibility to extend the options which
>> could be used through the configuration file beyond just the filters in
>> the future.
>>
>
> This is the correct argument - I will check a possibility to use strange
> names, but there is the same possibility and functionality like we allow
> from the command line. So you can use double quoted names. I'll check it.
>

I checked

echo "+t \"bad Name\"" | /usr/local/pgsql/master/bin/pg_dump
--filter=/dev/stdin

It is working without any problem

Regards

Pavel