On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 06:01:43PM +0200, Andrus wrote: > 5. Server has *only* 5432 port open. > > pg_read_file() can read only text files and is restricted only to > superusers. > > How to add a function pg_read_backup() to Postgres which creates and > returns backup file with download speed ? You could use an *un*trusted procedural language to create a function to binary-read the backup from disk and return it as a bytea field. Not sure how efficient that is, though. You could then simply do select get_backup(); If you allow for parameters you could make it return certain backups based on, perhaps, timestamp of creation. select list_available_backups(); might complete the suite of tools. One could then always use some hashing tools (mhash with PG bindings comes to mind) to verify whether a backup has arrived safely: on local machine: ripemd160(backupfile) select yhash.ripemd160(get_backup()) = <local hash>; Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346
