Re: Wanna help PostgreSQL

On 2014-05-14 10:49:05 -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > The reason that that project has gone untouched for upwards of ten years
> > is that it's not just a large coding project, but involves a lot of
> > complex API design with uncertain goals. It's not very clear what
> > features people would want from a "pg_dump library", though one capability
> > that gets mentioned often is the ability to extract the SQL definition
> > for a single object.
>
> Personally I'd prefer the creation of definitional SQL be moved out of
> pg_dump and into the database proper via something like
> 'pg_sql_definition(oid)' or something like that. There are lot of
> reasons applications (especially administrative ones like pgadmin and
> psql but also end user applications in some cases) would want to do
> that and forcing everything through pg_dump et al is awkward. The
> less magic in the external applications the better.

That'd be a separate feature from pg_dump though. pg_dump needs to be
cross-version compatible and the above prevents that...

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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