Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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
