On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Richard Huxton wrote:
> On Thursday 18 March 2004 10:18, Fabien COELHO wrote:
> > On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > > though I'd be worried about the portability price paid to have one. Or
> > > are you concerned about whether a GUI could invoke it? I don't see why
> > > not --- the GUIs don't reimplement pg_dump, do they?
>
> Actually Tom, I think they do (where they have an export facility). How would
> you run pg_dump on a remote machine? (well, without building an RPC
> mechanism)
Can't the GUI just do "pg_dump -h remotehost ..."? Or do you mean
something else? I think the phpPgAdmin developers recommend using pg_dump
exactly because they don't want to reinvent that formidable wheel.
Jon
