Re: Review: check existency of table for -t option (pg_dump) when pattern...

>     (new version in attach), but patch shows some inconsistent output:
>     % pg_dump -t 'aaa*'  postgres
>     pg_dump: No matching tables were found
>     % pg_dump -t 'aaa*' --strict-names postgres
>     pg_dump: Table "aaa*" not found.

> There are two different situation - first message says "there are not any table
> for work", second says "There are not specific table(s) with specific names
> (mask)". I am thinking so this information is enough interesting for showing.
Agree, but "aaa*" is not a table

>
> Can be changed to "No matching table(s) were found for filter "aaa*" " ?

"TBL" is not a filter. May be:

No matching table(s) were found for pattern "aaa*" ?
No matching table(s) were found for pattern "TBL" ?

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