On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:09 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Craig Ringer <cr...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: >> Here's how I think it needs to look: >> [ move all the functionality to the backend ] > > Of course, after you've done all that work, you've got something that is > of exactly zero use to its supposed principal use-case, pg_dump. pg_dump > will still have to support server versions that predate all these fancy > new dump functions, and that pretty much ensures that most of pg_dump's > core functionality will still be on the client side. Or, if you try to > finesse that problem by making sure the new server APIs correspond to > easily-identified pieces of pg_dump code, you'll probably end up with APIs > that nobody else wants to use :-(.
It's worse than that. If you put all the logic in the server, then a dump taken on an older version won't be able to quote keywords added in the newer version. Go directly to fail. -- 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
