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 ... -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support
