> No, what I envisioned was a standalone dumper that can produce dump output
> without having a backend at all. If this dumper knows about the various
> binary formats, and knows how to get my data into a form I can then restore
> reliably, I will be satisfied. If it can be easily automated so much the
> better. Doing it table by table would be ok as well.
Unless it dumps binary representation of columns, a standalone dumper
would still need to load all the output function shared libs for custom types
(or not support custom types which would imho not be good).
Andreas