Re: (A) native Windows port - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD
Subject Re: (A) native Windows port
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Msg-id 46C15C39FEB2C44BA555E356FBCD6FA4961E11@m0114.s-mxs.net
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In response to (A) native Windows port  (Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>)
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> 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




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