On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 00:24 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > A little further down-thread there was some discussion of also allowing > wild cards in the individual switches, eg > > -t 's1.*' > > (This would differ from '-n s1' in that a -t switch would restrict the > dump to tables only, whereas -n should take every sort of object in the > selected schema.)
Is this actually useful behavior? My gut feeling is "no", but I'm open to debate. ISTM that the combination of "-n" and "-t" achieves a pretty wide swath of the desired functionality. Considering that the various combinations of these switches is already quite complex, I think it would be wise to avoid additional, unnecessary complications. Plus it avoids the need to play games with escaping the wildcard from the shell. > * what about quoting/downcasing rules? If we don't implement wildcards, I don't believe we will need to change the present behavior of the "-n" and "-t" switches WRT case conversion etc. -Neil ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
