Re: Backup with Java

On 30-Nov-06, at 10:54 AM, Marc Herbert wrote:

> Patric Bechtel  writes:
>
>> Marc Herbert schrieb am 30.11.2006 12:03:
>>> Dave Cramer  writes:
>>>
>>>> I'd strongly suggest you exec pg_dump from the command line using
>>>> System.exec and connect to the remote database. This is  
>>>> certainly re-
>>>> inventing a non-trivial wheel.
>>>
>>> We have implemented this, with a couple of additional checks
>>>
>>> We also interested by alternatives approaches.
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>> But I just checked the link above, and it's still native.
>
> Yes, that's why I tried to say by quoting.
>
> Sorry if you misunderstood it; I probably should have removed the
> "reinventing" sentence.
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> By the way a (the?) major issue with programming against pg_dump is
> that it may prompt for a password in an unpredictable way. There is no
> --never-prompt-but-IMMEDIATLY-fail-instead option.
That could certainly be changed much easier than duplicating the  
entire pg_dump functionality
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