Re: Schema-qualified statements in pg_dump output

On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 16:58 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 23:53 -0400, Owen Hartnett wrote:

> No need to specify the name at pg_dump time.
> 
> For text files, just use an option to specify whether we change the
> actual schema name and replace it with the text :PGDUMPSCHEMA.
> 
>     pg_dump --relocateable-schema (or alternate option name)
> 
> Then when we reload, we just run
> 
>     psql -f pgdump.file -v PGDUMPSCHEMA=newlocation


I like the idea but would prefer no shell variable (I assume that is
what you are using above). Why not just -X target-schema=newlocation
or something like that?

Joshua D. Drake

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