Excerpts from Tomas Vondra's message of mar abr 26 17:39:19 -0300 2011: > Dne 25.4.2011 18:16, Alvaro Herrera napsal(a):
> > This reminds me -- we need to have pg_filedump be able to dump the > > relmapper stuff. I was going to write a patch for it but then I forgot. > > Was this a polite question whether I volunteer to write that patch? ;-) > > I've never used pg_filedump and I'm not quite sure what exactly is > needed, but it seem simple enough to do it. OK, I know the iceberg that > sank Titanic seemed small too ... Err, no, sorry if you thought it was. If you still want to volunteer I'm sure it'd be more than welcome. > I think I'll move the integrity check to the db, so that it's possible > to check the column lengths etc. (pageinspect seems like a good module > to mutilate in this direction) but I still believe it'd be useful to > have an offline tool for basic checks. Would pg_filedump be a resonable > tool to do that? No, I don't think pg_filedump is a good host for such checks. If we're going to have a tool to do that it'd be better to be able to include it in core (or at least contrib), and we can't have pg_filedump in there for licensing reasons. -- Álvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
