Re: Schema-qualified statements in pg_dump output

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Owen Hartnett <owen(at)clipboardinc(dot)com>, Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Schema-qualified statements in pg_dump output
Date: 2008-07-22 16:26:05
Message-ID: 1216743965.6971.129.camel@jd-laptop
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On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 16:58 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 23:53 -0400, Owen Hartnett wrote:

> No need to specify the name at pg_dump time.
>
> For text files, just use an option to specify whether we change the
> actual schema name and replace it with the text :PGDUMPSCHEMA.
>
> pg_dump --relocateable-schema (or alternate option name)
>
> Then when we reload, we just run
>
> psql -f pgdump.file -v PGDUMPSCHEMA=newlocation

I like the idea but would prefer no shell variable (I assume that is
what you are using above). Why not just -X target-schema=newlocation
or something like that?

Joshua D. Drake

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