Re: New pg_dump options: exclude tables/schemas, multiple all, wildcards

"Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com> writes:
> Plus, while the underscore is common in
> namespace names, a period is not.

That's a good point ... there might actually be less risk of collision
with existing habits if we go with regex instead of LIKE conventions for
the patterns.  Even though regex has many more special characters, none
seem very likely to appear in ordinary table or schema names.

            regards, tom lane