I was under the impression that every command that references a relation
makes use of the search path, regardless of what it is *doing*. Maybe this
is different in older versions though?

I actually ran into this recently and had to remove all the xx. schema
components using vi before I could run the dump to move to a different
schema.

Just to be sure:

postgres=# create schema test;
CREATE SCHEMA
postgres=# set search_path to test;
SET
postgres=# create table test1(id serial);
NOTICE:  CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence "test1_id_seq" for
serial column "test1.id"
CREATE TABLE
postgres=# alter table test1 owner to postgres;
ALTER TABLE


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On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote:

> 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.
>
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