On 04/10/2013 11:02 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
I think the main uses cases mentioned in connection with this idea are
usually in the direction of finer-grained control over what gets dumped
and how. But making pg_dump into a library would not necessarily
address that.
There's also the matter of embedding pg_dump into other programs. For
example, calling the pg_dump executable from inside pgAdmin is a rather
messy solution to the problem.
Natural solution to this seems to move most of pg_dump functionality
into backend as functions, so we have pg_dump_xxx() for everything
we want to dump plus a topological sort function for getting the
objects in right order.
The main things left into pg_dump the library would be support various ways
to format the dump results into text, tar and "dump" files.
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Hannu
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