| From: | Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Marlon Petry <marlonpetry(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Backup and restore through JDBC |
| Date: | 2006-09-29 12:59:25 |
| Message-ID: | 451D18AD.4000206@pse-consulting.de |
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Marlon Petry wrote:
>>
>>
>> pg_dump and pg_restore do not need to run on the server machine.
>> Why not
>> just run them where you want the dump stored?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> But I would need to have installed pg_dump and pg_restore in machine
>> client?
>> Without having installed pg_dump and pg_restore,how I could make
>>
>>
>
>
> You can't. pg_dump in particular embodies an enormous amount of
> knowledge that simply does not exist elsewhere. There is no
> dump/restore API, and there is nothing you can hook up to using JNI,
> AFAIK.
Recently, there was the proposal to extract that knowledge to a library
(making pg_dump itself just a wrapper). This sounds valuable more and
more, is anybody working on this for 8.3?
Regards,
Andreas
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