Re: BUG #5765: pg_dump fail to find upper case table name - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> Perhaps some of that should be moved up to the definition of the -t
> switch?  It wouldn't seem too out of place to me to put it somewhere
> near this sentence:
>
> | When using wildcards, be careful to quote the pattern if needed to
> | prevent the shell from expanding the wildcards.
>
> While examples are useful, information which is only provided there
> is easily missed when someone goes to read up on a particular
> switch.

I have applied the attached doc patch to reference the example section
from the specific pg_dump options sections.

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  Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>        http://momjian.us
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  + It's impossible for everything to be true. +
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml
new file mode 100644
index 25dc2a7..e78d275
*** a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml
--- b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml
*************** PostgreSQL documentation
*** 301,307 ****
          linkend="APP-PSQL-patterns" endterm="APP-PSQL-patterns-title">),
          so multiple schemas can also be selected by writing wildcard characters
          in the pattern.  When using wildcards, be careful to quote the pattern
!         if needed to prevent the shell from expanding the wildcards.
         </para>

         <note>
--- 301,308 ----
          linkend="APP-PSQL-patterns" endterm="APP-PSQL-patterns-title">),
          so multiple schemas can also be selected by writing wildcard characters
          in the pattern.  When using wildcards, be careful to quote the pattern
!         if needed to prevent the shell from expanding the wildcards;  see
!         <xref linkend="pg-dump-examples" endterm="pg-dump-examples-title">.
         </para>

         <note>
*************** PostgreSQL documentation
*** 435,441 ****
          linkend="APP-PSQL-patterns" endterm="APP-PSQL-patterns-title">),
          so multiple tables can also be selected by writing wildcard characters
          in the pattern.  When using wildcards, be careful to quote the pattern
!         if needed to prevent the shell from expanding the wildcards.
         </para>

         <para>
--- 436,443 ----
          linkend="APP-PSQL-patterns" endterm="APP-PSQL-patterns-title">),
          so multiple tables can also be selected by writing wildcard characters
          in the pattern.  When using wildcards, be careful to quote the pattern
!         if needed to prevent the shell from expanding the wildcards;  see
!         <xref linkend="pg-dump-examples" endterm="pg-dump-examples-title">.
         </para>

         <para>
*************** CREATE DATABASE foo WITH TEMPLATE templa
*** 973,979 ****
   </refsect1>

   <refsect1 id="pg-dump-examples">
!   <title>Examples</title>

    <para>
     To dump a database called <literal>mydb</> into a SQL-script file:
--- 975,981 ----
   </refsect1>

   <refsect1 id="pg-dump-examples">
!   <title id="pg-dump-examples-title">Examples</title>

    <para>
     To dump a database called <literal>mydb</> into a SQL-script file: