nolan@celery.tssi.com writes:
> There is a significant difference between 'backups', which are more of
> a DBA-level task and thus likely to be under the control of someone
> who in a UNIX context has root access or at least DBA shell access, plus
> the ability to schedule cron jobs, and 'exports' or 'imports', which
> are something that an individual user may wish to do with his/her own
> data independent of any database-wide backup schedules.
>
> The existing protocols (pg_dump, etc) are largely geared towards
> DBA-level backups, thus they tend to depend upon backend database
> access and validation schemes, ie, through .pgpass or pg_hba.conf,
> as opposed to frontend tools and user-level privilege grants.
What's wrong with \copy in psql?
-Doug
