Re: Backup with Java

[Marc Herbert <Marc(dot)Herbert(at)continuent(dot)com>]

Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com> writes:

> If you tie the dump software to the server, how will you do a dump of an
> old server using the new dump client ?

Simply by leaving a deprecated, backward-compatibility mode in
the pg_dump client?

Or, as said above, even more simply by using an old client.

I think everyone agrees that a dump involves a good knowledge of
internal server data. So I fully agree with Tomi: it seems a bit
awkward to implement this externally.