> Personally I think it would be neat. For example the admin-tool guys > would be able to get a dump without invoking an external program. > Second it would really be independent of core releases (other than being > tied to the output format.) pg_dump would be just a simple caller of > such a library, and anyone else would be able to get dumps easily, in > whatever format.
What about fully completing our SQL API for dumping?
ie. We finish adding pg_get_blahdef() for all objects, add a function that returns the proper ordering of all objects in the database, and then somehow drop out a dump with a single JOIN :D
Chris
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