Re: Backup and restore through JDBC

From: "Marlon Petry" <marlonpetry(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Backup and restore through JDBC
Date: 2006-09-29 13:13:12
Message-ID: 917b114a0609290613w55d53a43hfa3a8dfb28aa3d8b@mail.gmail.com
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> 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
>
>
I have interest in working,how i could start ?

regards,marlon

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