> Marlon Petry wrote: >> >> >> pg_dump and pg_restore do not need to run on the server machine. >> Why not >> just run them where you want the dump stored? >> >> >> >> >> But I would need to have installed pg_dump and pg_restore in machine >> client? >> Without having installed pg_dump and pg_restore,how I could make >> >> > > > You can't. pg_dump in particular embodies an enormous amount of > knowledge that simply does not exist elsewhere. There is no > dump/restore API, and there is nothing you can hook up to using JNI, > AFAIK. Recently, there was the proposal to extract that knowledge to a library (making pg_dump itself just a wrapper). This sounds valuable more and more, is anybody working on this for 8.3?
