Re: (A) native Windows port

From: "Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD" <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>
To: "Lamar Owen" <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>, "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Hannu Krosing" <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
Cc: "Jan Wieck" <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, "HACKERS" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: (A) native Windows port
Date: 2002-07-08 13:15:00
Message-ID: 46C15C39FEB2C44BA555E356FBCD6FA4961E11@m0114.s-mxs.net
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> No, what I envisioned was a standalone dumper that can produce dump output
> without having a backend at all. If this dumper knows about the various
> binary formats, and knows how to get my data into a form I can then restore
> reliably, I will be satisfied. If it can be easily automated so much the
> better. Doing it table by table would be ok as well.

Unless it dumps binary representation of columns, a standalone dumper
would still need to load all the output function shared libs for custom types
(or not support custom types which would imho not be good).

Andreas

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