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