On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Richard Huxton wrote: > On Thursday 18 March 2004 10:18, Fabien COELHO wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Tom Lane wrote: > > > > though I'd be worried about the portability price paid to have one. Or > > > are you concerned about whether a GUI could invoke it? I don't see why > > > not --- the GUIs don't reimplement pg_dump, do they? > > Actually Tom, I think they do (where they have an export facility). How would > you run pg_dump on a remote machine? (well, without building an RPC > mechanism)
Can't the GUI just do "pg_dump -h remotehost ..."? Or do you mean something else? I think the phpPgAdmin developers recommend using pg_dump exactly because they don't want to reinvent that formidable wheel. Jon ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
