RE: RE: [HACKERS] pg_dump & blobs - editable dump?

No he didn't, just I've been sort of lurking on this subject ;-)

Actually, tar files are simply a small header, followed by the file's
contents. To add another file, you simply write another header, and contents
(which is why you can cat two tar files together and get a working file).

http://www.goice.co.jp/member/mo/formats/tar.html has a nice brief
description of the header.

As for a C api with a compatible licence, if needs must I'll write one to
your spec (maidast should be back online in a couple of days, so I'll be
back in business development wise).

Peter

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-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Warner [mailto:pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au]
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 3:17 PM
To: Peter Mount; pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org;
pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Pavel(at)Janik(dot)cz
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] RE: [HACKERS] pg_dump & blobs - editable dump?

At 14:58 12/07/00 +0100, Peter Mount wrote:
>Why not have it using something like tar, and the first file being stored
in
>ascii?
>
>That way, you could extract easily the human readable SQL but still pipe
the
>blobs to stdout.

Has Tom Lane paid you to send this message? :-}

If anyone can send me a nice interface for reading and writing a tar file
from C, I'll do it. I just don't have the inclination to learn about tar
internals at the moment. By 'nice' I mean that I would like:

- to be able to create the archive and write files sequentially using
something similar to fopen/fwrite/fclose.

- open an archive and examine and read files sequentially using a similar
interface to opendir/readdir/fopen/fread/fclose.

- Ideally open a specified file in the archive by name, but if not
possible, then it should be easy using the 'opedir' function above.

This would be a very useful library, I am sure. It also needs to be
licensable under BSD to go into the PG distribution.

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