From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Jim C. Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com>
Cc: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>
Cc: soni de <soni.de@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Regarding pg_dump utility
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 12:38:38 -0400
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Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 06:33:28PM +0200, Andreas Pflug wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >Personally I think it would be neat. For example the admin-tool guys
> > >would be able to get a dump without invoking an external program.
> > >Second it would really be independent of core releases (other than being
> > >tied to the output format.) pg_dump would be just a simple caller of
> > >such a library, and anyone else would be able to get dumps easily, in
> > >whatever format.
> >
> > pgAdmin currently invokes pg_dump/restore externally with pipes attached
> > to stdin/out/err, but a library implementation would solve some
> > headaches (esp. concerning portability) managing background
> > execution/GUI updates/process control. I'd like a libpgdumprestore
> > library, with pg_dump/pg_restore being lean wrapper programs.
>
> Would a pg_dumpall library also make sense?
One would think that libpgdump should take care of this as well ...
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