Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump "all tables" in 7.3.X - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Paul Ramsey
Subject Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump "all tables" in 7.3.X
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Msg-id 3EFB3390.8050809@refractions.net
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Responses Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump "all tables" in 7.3.X  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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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@refractions.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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