Re: pg_get_tabledef

When you say pgdump library, do you mean taking all catalog querying
functionality into a contrib like module , exposed as functions and
then have a simple pgdump executable which calls those functions to dump
to a file, because you would still need a pgdump executable i suppose
for people to be able to backup their stuff. Is my understanding
somewhere near actual idea or i am way off here?

Are there any discussions on this topic which could give me a little
more idea? because i would definitely like to take a shot at this.

Regards,
Usama Munir
EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com)

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>
> Usama Munir wrote:
>> I think using pg_dump in some cases is a good option , but not all
>> the time, having a function makes it much cleaner to use
>
> That's why having a shared pgdump library as has been previously
> mentioned is by far the best solution.
>
> We have discussed this before, and factoring out this functionality
> into a shared lib is what needs to be done. I'm not convinced it is as
> much work as Tom suggests, but it is certainly a non-trivial task.
>
> cheers
>
> andrew