Re: pg_dump and schema namespace notes

Bruce Momjian wrote:

Any comments on this?  It seems like a valid confusion.  What solutions
are there? 

A common interchangeable title for schema is namespace and in actuality we use \dn in psql (\dnamespace)
to list them.

Perhaps we should change the name? I believe Oracle uses the term namespace as well.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: 

I think this is a suggestion/comment!

pg_dump man page:
     --schema-only             Dump only the schema (data definitions), no data

I think this use of the word schema is confusing, meaning data
definitions, whereas elsewhere in the man page schema are used as a
namespace definition.
      --schema=schema             Dump the contents of schema only. If this option is  not             speci- fied,  all  non-system  schemas  in  the target             database will be dumped

It would be nice if this could be a comman separated list (like set
search_path; A,info,public etc).

Rory
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