Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump "all tables" in 7.3.X

Oh, if it's by design then the "pg_dump --help" text should be updated
correspondingly. The online doco is already correct.

Tom Lane wrote:
> Paul Ramsey <pramsey(at)refractions(dot)net> writes:
>
>>We are trying to do an "all tables" dump using the 7.3.3 pg_dump, but
>>are getting no love. The pg_dump command which worked before, in 7.2,
>>no longer returns any tables:
>> pg_dump -t "*" dbname
>>Is this by design, or by accident?
>
>
> By design. Just omit the -t switch if you want all tables.
>
> ("*" is a legal table name, if perhaps not a very bright choice, so the
> old behavior was really not consistent.)
>
> regards, tom lane

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