On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Alexandr <askel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Rewrite (add) pg_dump and pg_restore utilities as libraries (.so, .dll & > .dylib)
This strikes me as (1) pretty vague and (2) probably too hard for a summer project. I mean, getting the existing binaries to build libraries that you can call with some trivial interface that mimics the existing command-line functionality of pg_dump might be doable, but that's not all that interesting. What people are really going to want is a library with a sophisticated API that lets you do interesting things programmatically. But that's going to be hard. AFAIK, nobody's even tried to figure out what that API should look like. Even if we had that worked out, a non-trivial task, the pg_dump source code is a mess, so refactoring it to provide such an API is likely to be a job and a half. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
