From: | Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au> |
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To: | Peter Mount <petermount(at)it(dot)maidstone(dot)gov(dot)uk>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Cc: | Pavel(at)Janik(dot)cz |
Subject: | Re: RE: [HACKERS] pg_dump & blobs - editable dump? |
Date: | 2000-07-12 14:17:28 |
Message-ID: | 3.0.5.32.20000713001728.02f3b440@mail.rhyme.com.au |
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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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