Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes: > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 18:46, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> ... I haven't looked at the patch but this >> discussion makes it sound like the dumper is dependent on an >> uncomfortably large amount of backend code being functional.
> No, it's dependent on close to zero backend functionality. > Particularly if we take out the dependency on elog() (write_stderr is > much simpler). In fact, the calls to elog() are the *only* places > where it calls into the backend as it stands today. Well, in the contrib-module guise, it's dependent on shared_preload_libraries or local_preload_libraries, which at least involves guc and dfmgr working pretty well (and not only in the postmaster, but during backend startup). regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers