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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml index 13fde9d2faf..389ac09995c 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <!-- -$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml,v 1.91 2006/10/23 18:10:32 petere Exp $ +$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml,v 1.92 2006/11/28 22:54:18 tgl Exp $ PostgreSQL documentation --> @@ -841,6 +841,20 @@ CREATE DATABASE foo WITH TEMPLATE template0; </screen> </para> + <para> + To specify an upper-case or mixed-case name in <option>-t</> and related + switches, you need to double-quote the name; else it will be folded to + lower case (see <xref + linkend="APP-PSQL-patterns" endterm="APP-PSQL-patterns-title">). But + double quotes are special to the shell, so in turn they must be quoted. + Thus, to dump a single table with a mixed-case name, you need something + like + +<screen> +<prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>pg_dump -t '"MixedCaseName"' mydb > mytab.sql</userinput> +</screen> + </para> + </refsect1> <refsect1> |