Karl,
> I don't care that much about the behavior, it's easy enough
> to delete 'public'. =C2=A0I do think that a note should be
> made in the administrator manual regards system upgrades
> where pg_dump(all) scripts are given if this is going to be
> the behavior.
This isn't isolated to the "public" schema. In fact, anything which is in=
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the template database (usually template1) will be in the database you reloa=
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even if it wasn't in the original database. The result is that when you t=
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to remove built-in objects that ship with PostgreSQL, they are "replaced" o=
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a new migration server. pg_dump isn't capable of working around this, nor=
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should it be.
Search the archives of -Hackers mailing list for this issue; a few=20
workarounds were suggested.
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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco