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.
Regards, Andreas
