Comments on: How to Bring Import and Export Back http://thoughts.davisjeff.com/2009/07/30/how-to-bring-import-and-export-back/ Ideas on Databases, Logic, and Language by Jeff Davis Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:18:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Strategic Procurement http://thoughts.davisjeff.com/2009/07/30/how-to-bring-import-and-export-back/comment-page-1/#comment-135 Strategic Procurement Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:56:26 +0000 http://thoughts.davisjeff.com/?p=71#comment-135 Very interesting blog post! I think this will create lots of excitement between various users. :) Very interesting blog post! I think this will create lots of excitement between various users. :)

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]]> By: Jeff Davis http://thoughts.davisjeff.com/2009/07/30/how-to-bring-import-and-export-back/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Jeff Davis Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:54:00 +0000 http://thoughts.davisjeff.com/?p=71#comment-30 The idea to make a pg_dump library so that it's easier to call it from an application has already been brought up here: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-07/msg01252.php I envision that it would be almost as easy as executing a COPY and sending the results back as a file. A few more options, but as long as you don't have to execute a file on the filesystem, it would work for me. pg_dump/restore would still need to be able to change names on the fly, however. I think that's important for a number of reasons. The idea to make a pg_dump library so that it’s easier to call it from an application has already been brought up here:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-07/msg01252.php

I envision that it would be almost as easy as executing a COPY and sending the results back as a file. A few more options, but as long as you don’t have to execute a file on the filesystem, it would work for me.

pg_dump/restore would still need to be able to change names on the fly, however. I think that’s important for a number of reasons.

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