From: Jim C. Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com>
To: soni de <soni.de@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Regarding pg_dump utility
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 10:16:57 -0500
Message-ID: <20060608151657.GL45331@pervasive.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9f2e40a90606072309v4c5b2623k8bda2614cd575835@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 11:39:48AM +0530, soni de wrote:
> We have to take a backup of database and we know the pg_dump utility of
> postgresql.
>
> But may I know, is there any API for this pg_dump utility so that we can
> call it from the C program? Or only script support is possible for this.
It probably wouldn't be terribly difficult to put the guts of pg_dump
into a library that you could interface with via C. I'm not sure if the
community would accept such a patch; though, I seem to recall other
people asking for this on occasion.
> I think script support is bit risky because if anything goes wrong while
> taking backup using pg_dump then user will not understand the problem of
> falling
>
> If only script support is possible then what should we prefer perl or shell?
Depends on what you're trying to accomplish. Perl is a much more capable
language than shell, obviously.
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