I often perform single-table backups using pgadmin.
Recently, a problem occurred while doing that kind of backup using pgadmin 1.6.2 and PostgreSQL 8.2.1 on a Windows XP server: When trying to backup a table contained in a specific schema, pg_dump can't find the table.


For instance, I have a database named 'mdg', containing a schema named 'art', in turn containing a table named 'tefh'. When I try to backup this table to the root directory with pgadmin, it generates and executes the following command:

pg_dump.exe -i -h localhost -p 5432 -U postgres -F c -v -f "c:\tefh" -t tefh -n art mdg


pg_dump then raises the following error:

'pg_dump: No matching tables were found'


I tried some alternatives from the command line, but pg_dump only seems to make the single-table backup when the table name is qualified, as in:

pg_dump.exe -i -h localhost -p 5432 -U postgres -F c -v -f "c:\tefh" -t art.tefh mdg


The command currently generated by pgadmin is not following a rule described in the pg_dump documentation (the second note on the '-t' option) :

'you must write something like -t sch.tab to select a table in a particular schema, rather than the old locution of -n sch -t tab'



Is there some known workaround to this problem ?
Thank you.


Hélder M. Vieira


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