Re: Windows: pg_dump doesn't recognize -n option - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Windows: pg_dump doesn't recognize -n option
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Msg-id 200812041450.57939.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Windows: pg_dump doesn't recognize -n option  (wstrzalka <wstrzalka@gmail.com>)
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On Thursday 04 December 2008 13:03:16 wstrzalka wrote:
> This is my output on Windows:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>---------------------------------

> D:\Code>pg_dump -U postgres -d test -n public
> pg_dump: too many command-line arguments (first is "-n")
> Try "pg_dump --help" for more information.

The -d option doesn't take an argument.  (It does not mean database.)
Hence 'test' is the first non-option argument, and everything after that is
also interpreted as non-option argument (unless you use GNU getopt).

What you appear to want should be written as

pg_dump -U postgres -n public test

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