Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2014-04-04 14:56:54 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I don't find that to be a good idea at all. pg_dump is probably not the
>> only code that believes it can select a creation target with search_path,
>> no matter what that target is.
> Sure, but how many of those are trying to put things in pg_catalog?
Maybe not many, but pg_dump itself certainly can try to do that.
(Most of the time, pg_dump won't dump things in pg_catalog, but there
are exceptions, eg --binary-upgrade dump of an extension containing
objects in pg_catalog.)
regards, tom lane