pg_dump goes to great lengths not to hard-code the schema name into
commands like CREATE TABLE, instead setting the search_path before
creating the table; these commands:
CREATE SCHEMA xx;CREATE TABLE xx.test(x int);
generates this output:
SET search_path = xx, pg_catalog;CREATE TABLE test ( x integer);
If you dump a schema and want to reload it into another schema, you
should only need to update that one search_path line. However, later in
the dump file, we hardcode the schema name for setting the object owner:
ALTER TABLE xx.test OWNER TO postgres;
Could we use search_path here to avoid the schema designation? I am not
sure this possible because while CREATE defaults to the first existing
schema in the search_path, I am not sure ALTER has the same behavior
because you are not _creating_ something with ALTER.
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