Re: pg_dump a specific schema

Neil Conway wrote:
> This patch allows pg_dump to dump the contents of a specific schema, and
> updates the documentation for pg_dump.
>
> I used the '-n' and '--namespace' command-line arguments. I did some
> limited testing and it seems to work fine, but there may be some bugs
> lurking in it...
>
> BTW, If the user specifies a non-existent namespace, what should pg_dump
> do? ISTM that printing an error message and aborting the dump is
> probably best, but presently non-existent namespaces are ignored, since
> -t follows a similar policy. Should we change both of these?

I can't think of any logic that would allow a table to be skipped on a
dump, same with namespaces.

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