Re: proposal: possibility to read dumped table's name from file

> On 17 Sep 2021, at 13:51, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> pá 17. 9. 2021 v 13:42 odesílatel Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se <mailto:daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>> napsal:

> I am unable to write a filter statement which can
> handle this relname:
>
> CREATE TABLE "a""
> ""b" (a integer);
>
> Are you able to craft one for that?
>
> I am not able to dump this directly in pg_dump. Is it possible?

Sure, see below:

$ ./bin/psql filter
psql (15devel)
Type "help" for help.

filter=# create table "a""
filter"# ""b" (a integer);
CREATE TABLE
filter=# select relname from pg_class order by oid desc limit 1;
relname
---------
a" +
"b
(1 row)

filter=# ^D\q
$ ./bin/pg_dump -s filter
--
-- PostgreSQL database dump
--

-- Dumped from database version 15devel
-- Dumped by pg_dump version 15devel

SET statement_timeout = 0;
SET lock_timeout = 0;
SET idle_in_transaction_session_timeout = 0;
SET client_encoding = 'UTF8';
SET standard_conforming_strings = on;
SELECT pg_catalog.set_config('search_path', '', false);
SET check_function_bodies = false;
SET xmloption = content;
SET client_min_messages = warning;
SET row_security = off;

SET default_tablespace = '';

SET default_table_access_method = heap;

--
-- Name: a" "b; Type: TABLE; Schema: public; Owner: danielg
--

CREATE TABLE public."a""
""b" (
a integer
);

ALTER TABLE public."a""
""b" OWNER TO danielg;

--
-- PostgreSQL database dump complete
--

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