Re: Regarding pg_dump utility

["Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>]

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?
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