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

Hello, Kevin.

You wrote:

KG> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
KG>
>> 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
KG>
KG> Perhaps some of that should be moved up to the definition of the -t
KG> switch? It wouldn't seem too out of place to me to put it somewhere
KG> near this sentence:
KG>
KG> | When using wildcards, be careful to quote the pattern if needed to
KG> | prevent the shell from expanding the wildcards.

+100

KG>
KG> While examples are useful, information which is only provided there
KG> is easily missed when someone goes to read up on a particular
KG> switch.
KG>
KG> -Kevin

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