Re: pg_dump and schema namespace notes

Bruce Momjian wrote:

>Any comments on this? It seems like a valid confusion. What solutions
>are there?
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A common interchangeable title for schema is namespace and in actuality
we use \dn in psql (\dnamespace)
to list them.

Perhaps we should change the name? I believe Oracle uses the term
namespace as well.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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>Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
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>>I think this is a suggestion/comment!
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>>pg_dump man page:
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>> --schema-only
>> Dump only the schema (data definitions), no data
>>
>>I think this use of the word schema is confusing, meaning data
>>definitions, whereas elsewhere in the man page schema are used as a
>>namespace definition.
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>> --schema=schema
>> Dump the contents of schema only. If this option is not
>> speci- fied, all non-system schemas in the target
>> database will be dumped
>>
>>It would be nice if this could be a comman separated list (like set
>>search_path; A,info,public etc).
>>
>>Rory
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