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.
What about fully completing our SQL API for dumping?
ie. We finish adding pg_get_blahdef() for all objects, add a function
that returns the proper ordering of all objects in the database, and
then somehow drop out a dump with a single JOIN :D
Chris
