Re: Backup and restore through JDBC

Marlon Petry wrote:>
>
>     > You can't. pg_dump in particular embodies an enormous amount of
>     > knowledge that simply does not exist elsewhere. There is no
>     > dump/restore API, and there is nothing you can hook up to using JNI,
>     > AFAIK.
>     Recently, there was the proposal to extract that knowledge to a
>     library
>     (making pg_dump itself just a wrapper). This sounds valuable more and
>     more, is anybody working on this for 8.3?
>
>
> I have interest in working,how i could start ?
>


Start by reading the code in src/bin/pg_dump

Then after you recover from your head exploding you start devising some 
sort of sane API ...

cheers

andrew