On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Tom Lane wrote:
> Christopher Kings-Lynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> When running pg_dump --clean against a server that doesn't have schemas
> >> the namespace is blank and ends up producing a dump full off things like:
> >>
> >> DROP TABLE "".tab;
>
> > Since the person is dumping using 7.5 pg_dump, presumably they will be
> > restoring to 7.5, and it should be:
>
> > DROP TABLE "public".tab;
>
> Possibly the most correct solution is to assign the name "public" to the
> dummy schema that pg_dump creates internally when talking to a pre-7.3
> server.
I was considering that they might want to restore the dump into another
schema and that would be easier with an unqualified name. I don't really
understand why the name needs to be fully qualified in the first place.
> I seem to recall that there was some reason for using "", but I don't
> recall what exactly.
>
It seems like the only possible reasons are deliberately making it fail or
just a lack of testing. There's no way it does anything useful.
Kris Jurka
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