On 14 April 2016 at 18:16, Jakob Egger <ja...@eggerapps.at> wrote: > Would anybody else be interested in a pg_dump library? >
Yes. It comes up a lot, but so far nobody's had the time and energy to actually do the required refactoring. I'm the developer of a PostgreSQL GUI client, and I am looking for ways to > integrate pg_dump into my application. The main use case would be to get > the dump of individual tables (for example, when you want to create a table > similar to an existing one) > I'd find a pg_get_tabledef(...) built-in function more interesting for this particular purpose than pg_dump as a library would be. We already have pg_get_viewdef(...), pg_get_functiondef(...) etc. -- Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
