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

Greetings,

On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 14:07 Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:

> > On 17 Sep 2021, at 13:59, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > pá 17. 9. 2021 v 13:56 odesílatel Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se
> <mailto:daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>> napsal:
> > > On 17 Sep 2021, at 13:51, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com
> <mailto:pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>> wrote:
> > > pá 17. 9. 2021 v 13:42 odesílatel Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se
> <mailto:daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> <mailto:daniel(at)yesql(dot)se <mailto:daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>>>
> napsal:
>
> > > I am unable to write a filter statement which can
> > > handle this relname:
> > >
> > > CREATE TABLE "a""
> > > ""b" (a integer);
> > >
> > > Are you able to craft one for that?
> > >
> > > I am not able to dump this directly in pg_dump. Is it possible?
> >
> > Sure, see below:
> >
> > $ ./bin/psql filter
> > psql (15devel)
> > Type "help" for help.
> >
> > I didn't ask on this
> >
> > I asked if you can use -t and some for filtering this name?
>
> I didn't try as I don't see how that's relevant? Surely we're not
> limiting the
> capabilities of a filtering file format based on the quoting semantics of a
> shell?

Yeah, agreed. I would think that a DBA might specifically want to be able
to use a config file to get away from having to deal with shell quoting, in
fact…

Thanks,

Stephen

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