Re: Schema dump

On 1/2/20 5:47 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Sonam Sharma <sonams1209(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> I took a schema dump using : pg_dump -n schema dbname .
>> When I restored this , it doesn't contain the constraints and indexes. Can
>> someone please help how to take a dump including all
>
> Hmph ... works for me. Where by "works", I mean "the dump contains
> constraints and indexes belonging to tables in the specified schema,
> and not any others". Maybe you could provide a little more detail?
>
> (One thing I notice is that the dump doesn't contain a "CREATE
> SCHEMA schema" command, so you have to do that manually before
> you restore. I guess this fits with the definition of the switch
> as selecting objects *in* the named schema, but it's still a
> possible gotcha.)

Caffeine kicked in, now I remember how the above happens:

pg_restore -n utility -f pgrestore_utility.sql /production_12.out

In pgrestore_utility.sql there is no CREATE SCHEMA.

This came up in a previous thread:

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/6234.1569941612%40sss.pgh.pa.us

>
> regards, tom lane
>
>

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