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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: proposal: possibility to read dumped table's name from file
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Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
> one my customer has to specify dumped tables name by name. After years and
> increasing database size and table numbers he has problem with too short
> command line. He need to read the list of tables from file (or from stdin).

I guess the question is why.  That seems like an enormously error-prone
approach.  Can't they switch to selecting schemas?  Or excluding the
hopefully-short list of tables they don't want?

			regards, tom lane