Tom Lane said:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
>> O.k. so now what I am getting from this thread is, the functions exist
>> now in pg_dump but we want to pull them out of pg_dump and push them
>> into the backend?
>
> That's exactly what I *don't* want to do. If you can think of a
> use-case for these functions outside of pg_dump, feel free to put them
> in the backend, but pg_dump should continue to do things as it does
> now.
>
ISTR we debated this some time ago and decided that it wasn't a good idea
for pg_dump. I certainly agree with Tom about it.
But I think there is almost certainly a good use case for these apart from
pg_dump. I recall many years ago using IBMs QMF facility that would provide
skeleton select for a table, and maybe it gave a create query too (it was
about 20 years ago, so my memory is not perfect). I have sometimes wished we
had such a thing for use in C&P query construction.
cheers
andrew