From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
cc: Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: DDL - TYPES
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Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> writes:
>> They're never multi-line? 

> Never, unless you create a type with a newline in its name:

>   CREATE TYPE "my
>   type" AS ENUM ('silly');

I think Ron was pointing out that the creation command as a whole
could run to multiple lines --- which is true, as a quick look
at the pg_dump source code will confirm.  dumpEnumType for example
will put a newline after each enum value.  So you'd need something
smarter than grep to extract a usable result.

One idea is to use pg_restore -l and then -L to extract a single
dump object from an archive dump.

			regards, tom lane