Re: Backup and restore through JDBC

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Marlon Petry <marlonpetry(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Backup and restore through JDBC
Date: 2006-09-29 13:25:05
Message-ID: 451D1EB1.603@dunslane.net
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Marlon Petry wrote:>
>
> > 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?
>
>
> I have interest in working,how i could start ?
>

Start by reading the code in src/bin/pg_dump

Then after you recover from your head exploding you start devising some
sort of sane API ...

cheers

andrew

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