Re: Refactor pg_dump as a library?

On 14 April 2016 at 18:16, Jakob Egger <jakob(at)eggerapps(dot)at> wrote:

> Would anybody else be interested in a pg_dump library?
>

Yes. It comes up a lot, but so far nobody's had the time and energy to
actually do the required refactoring.

I'm the developer of a PostgreSQL GUI client, and I am looking for ways to
> integrate pg_dump into my application. The main use case would be to get
> the dump of individual tables (for example, when you want to create a table
> similar to an existing one)
>

I'd find a pg_get_tabledef(...) built-in function more interesting for this
particular purpose than pg_dump as a library would be. We already have
pg_get_viewdef(...), pg_get_functiondef(...) etc.

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