On 5/24/17 21:36, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 7:16 PM, Peter Eisentraut
> <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> On 5/22/17 07:42, Kuntal Ghosh wrote:
>>> pg_dump ignores anything created under object name "pg_*" or
>>> "information_schema".
>>
>> Publications have a slightly different definition of what tables to
>> ignore/prohibit than pg_dump, partly because they have more built-in
>> knowledge. I'm not sure whether it's worth fixing this.
>
> Well, I think if it's not going to work, it should be prohibited,
> rather than seeming to work but then not actually working.
Here is a similar case that pg_dump fails on:
create table information_schema.test1 (a int);
create view public.test2 as select * from information_schema.test1;
It's not clear how to address that, or whether it's worth it.
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