Re: BUG #5765: pg_dump fail to find upper case table name

Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > Manual says (at the bottom of
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/app-pgdump.html):
> >
> >> To specify an upper-case or mixed-case name in -t and related
> >> switches, you need to double-quote the name; else it will be
> >> folded to lower case (see Patterns). But double quotes are
> >> special to the shell, so in turn they must be quoted. Thus, to
> >> dump a single table with a mixed-case name, you need something
> >> like
> >>
> >> $ pg_dump -t '"MixedCaseName"' mydb > mytab.sql
>
> Perhaps some of that should be moved up to the definition of the -t
> switch? It wouldn't seem too out of place to me to put it somewhere
> near this sentence:
>
> | When using wildcards, be careful to quote the pattern if needed to
> | prevent the shell from expanding the wildcards.
>
> While examples are useful, information which is only provided there
> is easily missed when someone goes to read up on a particular
> switch.

I have applied the attached doc patch to reference the example section
from the specific pg_dump options sections.

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