pg_dump goes to great lengths not to hard-code the schema name into
commands like CREATE TABLE, instead setting the search_path before
creating the table;  these commands:

        CREATE SCHEMA xx;
        CREATE TABLE xx.test(x int);

generates this output:

        SET search_path = xx, pg_catalog;
        CREATE TABLE test (
            x integer
        );

If you dump a schema and want to reload it into another schema, you
should only need to update that one search_path line.  However, later in
the dump file, we hardcode the schema name for setting the object owner:

        ALTER TABLE xx.test OWNER TO postgres;

Could we use search_path here to avoid the schema designation?  I am not
sure this possible because while CREATE defaults to the first existing
schema in the search_path, I am not sure ALTER has the same behavior
because you are not _creating_ something with ALTER.

-- 
  Bruce Momjian  <br...@momjian.us>        http://momjian.us
  EnterpriseDB                             http://enterprisedb.com

  + It's impossible for everything to be true. +


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