Perhaps this feature could co-exist with a full blown configuration for pg_dump, but even then there's certainly issues with what's proposed- how would you handle explicitly asking for a table which is named " mytable" to be included or excluded? Or a table which has a newline in it? Using a standardized format which supports the full range of what we do in a table name, explicitly and clearly, would address these issues and also give us the flexibility to extend the options which could be used through the configuration file beyond just the filters in the future.
This is the correct argument - I will check a possibility to use strange names, but there is the same possibility and functionality like we allow from the command line. So you can use double quoted names. I'll check it.
