Re: Release plan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Pflug [mailto:Andreas(dot)Pflug(at)web(dot)de]
> Sent: 01 May 2003 15:52
> To: Dave Page; pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: Release plan
>
>
> Dave Page wrote:
>
> >Do you want to take the responsibility of getting the dump slightly
> >wrong and someone finding they've lost their data or it's been
> >corrupted? I certainly don't. If however, we can build in
> pg_dump, or
> >provide a front end to it and display suitable messages whenever we
> >find a version mismatch, then I would be a lot more happy to include
> >such functionality.
> >
> >
> I don't have problems taking the responsibility. If I'm being
> paid to do
> so...

:-) Same here, but I'm not...

> If the "backup wizard" isn't smart enough to cope with potential user
> handling problems it's obviously not worth being integrated into
> pgadmin3 :-)

It's not so much the users as us. It's easy to get the SQL regeneration
slightly wrong, or export data in a slightly incompatible format. Why
recreate all those problems already solved by the pg_dump maintainers?
Perhaps we can get the guts of pg_dump compiled into a library though
and use that tried and test code with our own GUI?

Regards, Dave.