On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 13:35 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > No need to specify the name at pg_dump time.
> > For text files, just use an option to specify whether we change the
> > actual schema name and replace it with the text :PGDUMPSCHEMA.
>
> pg_restore is in even worse position than pg_dump to make this happen;
> it would not be able to do anything that's smarter than a sed-like
> substitution.
Somebody just needs to check carefully to see what will work. I accept
there is no easy option that is materially better than sed.
I've screwed up a dump with sed, luckily noticed. I'm not playing
Russian Roulette again. The chance of the schema name being stored
somewhere in the database seems high, on reflection.
-- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.comPostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
