Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 18:46, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> ... I haven't looked at the patch but this
>> discussion makes it sound like the dumper is dependent on an
>> uncomfortably large amount of backend code being functional.
> No, it's dependent on close to zero backend functionality.
> Particularly if we take out the dependency on elog() (write_stderr is
> much simpler). In fact, the calls to elog() are the *only* places
> where it calls into the backend as it stands today.
Well, in the contrib-module guise, it's dependent on
shared_preload_libraries or local_preload_libraries, which at least
involves guc and dfmgr working pretty well (and not only in the
postmaster, but during backend startup).
regards, tom lane