Re: BUG #3913: pg_dump -T option not recognised

David Dunwoody wrote:
> OK, just reproduced with 8.2.6 compiled from source on Ubuntu 7.10
> (all updates applied as a couple of hours ago).
>
> Steps to reproduce.  Forgive any typos, this isn't all from
> bash_history, but was done on a machine that never had postgresql on
> it before (specifically, my laptop).
>
> Command output is shown between ... characters.
>
> ** Basic install and clean DB setup:
>
> wget http://mirror/postgresql-8.2.6.tar.gz
> tar zxvf postgres-8.2.6.tar.gz
> cd postgresql-8.2.6
> ./configure --prefix=/opt/postgres
> make
> sudo make install
> sudo lndir /opt/postgres/bin /usr/local/bin
> sudo mkdir /opt/postgres/data
> sudo chown postgres /opt/postgres/data
> sudo adduser postgres
> sudo su - postgres
> initdb -D /opt/postgres/data
> postgres -D /opt/postgres/data > logfile 2>&1 &
> createdb test
> psql test
>
> ** Create test tables:
>
> create table a ( col1 date, col2 date );
> create table b ( col1 date, col2 date );
> create table c ( col1 date, col2 date );
>
> exit psql
>
> ** Sanity check psql:
>
> pg_dump -v test > /dev/null
>
> ...
> pg_dump: creating TABLE a
> pg_dump: creating TABLE b
> pg_dump: creating TABLE c
> ...
>
> As expected
>
> ** Check --exclude-table option:
>
> pg_dump -v --exclude-table=b test > /dev/null
>
> ...
> pg_dump: creating TABLE a
> pg_dump: creating TABLE c
> ...
>
> As expected
>
> ** Check -T option:
>
> pg_dump -v -T=b test > /dev/null
>
> ...
> pg_dump: creating TABLE a
> pg_dump: creating TABLE b
> pg_dump: creating TABLE c
> ...
>
> Silently ignores -T
>
>
> I hope I'm an idiot, but that looks like a bug according to pg_dump
> --help which says:
>
> ...
> -T, --exclude-table=TABLE   do NOT dump the named table(s)
> ...
>
>
> Hope that helps you reproduce it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
>
>
> On 30/01/2008, *Tom Lane* <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
> <mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>> wrote:
>
>     Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM
>     <mailto:Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM>> writes:
>     > David Dunwoody wrote:
>     >> When running pg_dump, the -T option for table exclusion is
>     ignored, but
>     >> --exclude-table does work.
>
>     > It works for me. Can you recheck it again?
>
>     Works for me too, on Fedora 8.  But could you give a complete example?
>     Maybe there's some other contributing factor in the particular case
>     you're trying.
>
>                             regards, tom lane
>
>
Hola, hasta donde veo lo que esta de mas es el igual (=) -T=b debe decir
-T b

Saludos Fernando