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Subject: Re: BUG #18453: --exclude-database has problems with capital letters
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"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tuesday, April 30, 2024, PG Bug reporting form <noreply@postgresql.org>
> wrote:
>> I've got a database named Lidar, which I want to exclude from being dumped
>> with pg_dumpall. When I use the following command, the database is not
>> skipped:
>> "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\16\bin\pg_dumpall.exe"
>> --exclude-database="Lidar" -U postgres > D:\dumps\pg.dump

> You will need to deal with getting quotes into the pattern while dealing
> with the fact your OS uses quotes for its own purpose.

Yeah.  In a Unix shell something like
	'--exclude-database="Lidar"'
would work, but I'm not up on the quoting rules under Windows.

			regards, tom lane