Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Also, it seems Win32 doesn't need these scripts, except initdb. > > > The utility of these programs is independent of the platform. If we think > > pg_dumpall is not useful, then let's remove it. > > I have been seriously considering converting pg_dumpall to C anyway, > because it's already *very* messy, and I don't see any reasonable > way to make it support dumping per-database and per-user config > settings. (Do you really want to try to parse array values in a > shell script?) > > (I'd actually consider making pg_dumpall a part of the pg_dump > executable; then it could invoke pg_dump as a subroutine call...) > > If Peter's got the time/energy to convert 'em all, I'm for it.
Yea, shame it will now take 15 lines of C code to do what we could do in 1 line of shell script but I don't see any other option. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org