Re: Roadmap for a Win32 port

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>> Also, it seems Win32 doesn't need these scripts, except initdb.

> The utility of these programs is independent of the platform.  If we think
> pg_dumpall is not useful, then let's remove it.

I have been seriously considering converting pg_dumpall to C anyway,
because it's already *very* messy, and I don't see any reasonable
way to make it support dumping per-database and per-user config
settings.  (Do you really want to try to parse array values in a
shell script?)

(I'd actually consider making pg_dumpall a part of the pg_dump
executable; then it could invoke pg_dump as a subroutine call...)

If Peter's got the time/energy to convert 'em all, I'm for it.
        regards, tom lane