> No, what I envisioned was a standalone dumper that can produce dump output > without having a backend at all. If this dumper knows about the various > binary formats, and knows how to get my data into a form I can then restore > reliably, I will be satisfied. If it can be easily automated so much the > better. Doing it table by table would be ok as well.
Unless it dumps binary representation of columns, a standalone dumper would still need to load all the output function shared libs for custom types (or not support custom types which would imho not be good). Andreas ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
