Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I think the main uses cases mentioned in connection with this idea are
> usually in the direction of finer-grained control over what gets dumped
> and how. But making pg_dump into a library would not necessarily
> address that.
There's also the matter of embedding pg_dump into other programs. For
example, calling the pg_dump executable from inside pgAdmin is a rather
messy solution to the problem.
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