Re: Backup and restore through JDBC

Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> Then after you recover from your head exploding you start devising some
> sort of sane API ...

That's the hard part. There is no percentage in having a library if
it doesn't do anything significantly different from what you could
accomplish via
system("pg_dump ...switches....");

What is it you hope to accomplish by having a library, exactly?
(And don't say "more control over the dump process". pg_dump is already
on the hairy edge of maintainability; we do *not* need to try to deal
with making it still function correctly after an application programmer
makes some random intervention in the process.)

regards, tom lane