Re: Backup of entire servers and roles/tablespaces

Hi.

> I'm just in the process of hacking pgAdmin to allow backup of entire
> servers or global info (roles and tablespaces). I was using the same
> mechanism as we use for pg_dump, however this doesn't work with
> pg_dumpall which doesn't support the -f option to redirect output to a file.
>
> Instead, I've been looking at separating the output and error streams
> from pg_dumpall, however this won't work either because pg_dumpall calls
> pg_dump to do much of it's work, and we cannot attach to those streams
> through pg_dumpall.
>
> I'm therefore toying with writing our own backup code to act as an
> equivalent to pg_dumpall, but would really prefer not to do this as the
> backup code is extremely important to get right of course.
>
> Thoughts or ideas?

Yea, I think so. however, surely the importance exists for a user.
I know that it has many problems with pgpass.conf....
Although only a specific user may be able to save, pgAdmin3 does
not have preparations in it. probably, it is desirable.

Regards,
Hiroshi Saito