Re: Win32 pg_dump fails for single table backup

Thanks.

Double quoting as suggested solves the problem and all seems to be working
as i expected. In particular i wasn't quoting the schema name, rather i
quoted the combined <schema>.<table> string.

Regards, Simon

On 17/04/07, Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
>
> Arnaud Lesauvage wrote:
> > simon(dot)abele(at)gmail(dot)com a écrit :
> >> I second this bug - i'm experiencing the same problem trying to backup
> >> (dump) tables with mixed case names (e.g. MyTableName). I've installed
> >> pgAdmin v1.6.3 and attempted to backup (compressed and plain, within
> >> pgadmin, from cmd line) some tables with mixed case names, so far
> >> without success. I'm able to dump out all lower case named tables
> >> (e.g. mytablename) but NOT mixed case named tables.
> >
> > So the syntax "-t <table> -n <schema>" used by pgAdmin is not correct
> > anymore.
>
> Are you sure you're running 1.6.3? I get (not the non default schema,
> and that both the schema and table names need quoting):
>
> C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.2\bin\pg_dump.exe -i -h localhost -p 5432
> -U postgres -F c -v -f "c:\foo.bak" -t "\"FOO\".\"Role\"" postgres
> pg_dump: reading schemas
> pg_dump: reading user-defined functions
> pg_dump: reading user-defined types
> pg_dump: reading procedural languages
> pg_dump: reading user-defined aggregate functions
> pg_dump: reading user-defined operators
> pg_dump: reading user-defined operator classes
> pg_dump: reading user-defined conversions
> pg_dump: reading user-defined tables
> pg_dump: reading table inheritance information
> pg_dump: reading rewrite rules
> pg_dump: reading type casts
> pg_dump: finding inheritance relationships
> pg_dump: reading column info for interesting tables
> pg_dump: finding the columns and types of table "Role"
> pg_dump: flagging inherited columns in subtables
> pg_dump: reading indexes
> pg_dump: reading indexes for table "Role"
> pg_dump: reading constraints
> pg_dump: reading triggers
> pg_dump: reading dependency data
> pg_dump: saving encoding = LATIN1
> pg_dump: saving standard_conforming_strings = off
> pg_dump: dumping contents of table Role
>
> Process returned exit code 0.
>
> Regards, Dave
>