On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom Lane wrote: > >> ... convincing use-case that will justify the maintenance load we > >> are setting up for ourselves. "Somebody might want this" is not > >> adequate. > > > I realize it is problem to have the function in two places in our code, > > but if we don't make a user-accessible version, every application has to > > roll their own version and update it for our system catalog changes. > > Nope, wrong, you are assuming the conclusion. Exactly which apps have > to have this?
Well, the alternative interfaces like pgadmin and ppa. That said, I prefer the idea of breaking out the queries in pg_dump and psql into a library. Like you say up thread, that's a big project and it's an all or nothing proposition. Thanks, Gavin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly