Re: [PERFORM] Regarding pg_dump utility

2006-06-09 Thread Paul S
I think that having an API for backup functionality would definitely be useful.    Just my 2 cents...   Paul     On 6/8/06, Christopher Kings-Lynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Personally I think it would be neat.  For example the admin-tool guys> would be able to get a dump without invoking an ex

Re: [PERFORM] Regarding pg_dump utility

2006-06-08 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Personally I think it would be neat. For example the admin-tool guys would be able to get a dump without invoking an external program. Second it would really be independent of core releases (other than being tied to the output format.) pg_dump would be just a simple caller of such a library, and

Re: [PERFORM] Regarding pg_dump utility

2006-06-08 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
It probably wouldn't be terribly difficult to put the guts of pg_dump into a library that you could interface with via C. I'm not sure if the community would accept such a patch; though, I seem to recall other people asking for this on occasion. I think script support is bit risky because if an

Re: [PERFORM] Regarding pg_dump utility

2006-06-08 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Jim C. Nasby wrote: > On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 06:33:28PM +0200, Andreas Pflug wrote: > > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > > > > > > > > > >Personally I think it would be neat. For example the admin-tool guys > > >would be able to get a dump without invoking an external program. > > >Second it would real

Re: [PERFORM] Regarding pg_dump utility

2006-06-08 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 06:33:28PM +0200, Andreas Pflug wrote: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > > > > > >Personally I think it would be neat. For example the admin-tool guys > >would be able to get a dump without invoking an external program. > >Second it would really be independent of core releases (

Re: [PERFORM] Regarding pg_dump utility

2006-06-08 Thread Andreas Pflug
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Personally I think it would be neat. For example the admin-tool guys would be able to get a dump without invoking an external program. Second it would really be independent of core releases (other than being tied to the output format.) pg_dump would be just a simple cal

Re: [PERFORM] Regarding pg_dump utility

2006-06-08 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Jim C. Nasby wrote: > On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 11:39:48AM +0530, soni de wrote: > > We have to take a backup of database and we know the pg_dump utility of > > postgresql. > > > > But may I know, is there any API for this pg_dump utility so that we can > > call it from the C program? Or only script

Re: [PERFORM] Regarding pg_dump utility

2006-06-08 Thread Geoffrey
Tom Lane wrote: "soni de" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: We have to take a backup of database and we know the pg_dump utility of postgresql. But may I know, is there any API for this pg_dump utility so that we can call it from the C program? Or only script support is possible for this. There's

Re: [PERFORM] Regarding pg_dump utility

2006-06-08 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 11:39:48AM +0530, soni de wrote: > We have to take a backup of database and we know the pg_dump utility of > postgresql. > > But may I know, is there any API for this pg_dump utility so that we can > call it from the C program? Or only script support is possible for this.

Re: [PERFORM] Regarding pg_dump utility

2006-06-08 Thread Tom Lane
"soni de" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We have to take a backup of database and we know the pg_dump utility of > postgresql. > But may I know, is there any API for this pg_dump utility so that we can > call it from the C program? Or only script support is possible for this. There's always system