Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: > Manual says (at the bottom of > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/app-pgdump.html): > >> To specify an upper-case or mixed-case name in -t and related >> switches, you need to double-quote the name; else it will be >> folded to lower case (see Patterns). But double quotes are >> special to the shell, so in turn they must be quoted. Thus, to >> dump a single table with a mixed-case name, you need something >> like >> >> $ pg_dump -t '"MixedCaseName"' mydb > mytab.sql Perhaps some of that should be moved up to the definition of the -t switch? It wouldn't seem too out of place to me to put it somewhere near this sentence: | When using wildcards, be careful to quote the pattern if needed to | prevent the shell from expanding the wildcards. While examples are useful, information which is only provided there is easily missed when someone goes to read up on a particular switch. -Kevin
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