Re: Backup with Java

Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:

> Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com> writes:
>> Actually, if there were a working and maintained pg_upgrade, I'm pretty
>> sure nobody would use pg_dump as an upgrade facility anymore.
>
> You think so eh? Hint: the only workable design I've seen for pg_upgrade
> uses pg_dump as a component. It's much easier to handle
> version-to-version changes in pg_dump than it would be inside the server.

This discussion looks a bit weird to me since currently pg_dump IS
pg_upgrade; it's just misnamed.

Quite obviously it also implements pg_dumb_dump as a particular case.

Too bad the "real", simple pg_dumb_dump does not exist, it would have
been nice and useful to re-implement it in java.