On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 19:39, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > 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).
Yes, sorry. My mindset was in "the version that'll go into 9.1". -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers