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* Extension prevents dumping table?
@ 2012-05-09 17:06 Chander Ganesan <chander.ganesan@gmail.com>
  2012-05-09 17:41 ` Re: Extension prevents dumping table? Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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From: Chander Ganesan @ 2012-05-09 17:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-admin

With PostGIS 2.0 if I load/install postgis using the command:

create extension postgis schema postgis;

And then use the command:

pg_dump -t postgis.spatial_ref_sys dbname > spatial_ref_sys.sql

I get an output that contains a few "set" statements, but no table 
definition or data from the table.

However, if I install the PostGIS components the "old" way (not using 
the extension loader), the pg_dump of the table works just fine.

Any ideas how to fix this or why this happens?

thanks

chander



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* Re: Extension prevents dumping table?
  2012-05-09 17:06 Extension prevents dumping table? Chander Ganesan <chander.ganesan@gmail.com>
@ 2012-05-09 17:41 ` Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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From: Tom Lane @ 2012-05-09 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Chander Ganesan <chander.ganesan@gmail.com>; +Cc: pgsql-admin

Chander Ganesan <chander.ganesan@gmail.com> writes:
> With PostGIS 2.0 if I load/install postgis using the command:
> create extension postgis schema postgis;

> And then use the command:

> pg_dump -t postgis.spatial_ref_sys dbname > spatial_ref_sys.sql

> I get an output that contains a few "set" statements, but no table 
> definition or data from the table.

> However, if I install the PostGIS components the "old" way (not using 
> the extension loader), the pg_dump of the table works just fine.

> Any ideas how to fix this or why this happens?

I don't think there is anything to "fix".  If the table is part of the
extension then it should not get dumped separately.  I don't know enough
about PostGIS to know if there's a valid reason to want to dump that
table by itself, but if you think there is, you should take it up with
the PostGIS authors; there may be a need to adjust the way PostGIS is
packaged into an extension.

			regards, tom lane



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