> It probably wouldn't be terribly difficult to put the guts of pg_dump
> into a library that you could interface with via C. I'm not sure if the
> community would accept such a patch; though, I seem to recall other
> people asking for this on occasion.
>
>> I think script support is bit risky because if anything goes wrong while
>> taking backup using pg_dump then user will not understand the problem of
>> falling
>>
>> If only script support is possible then what should we prefer perl or shell?
>
> Depends on what you're trying to accomplish. Perl is a much more capable
> language than shell, obviously.
In phpPgAdmin we just execute pg_dump as a child process and capture its
output....