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Re: RE: [HACKERS] pg_dump & blobs - editable dump?

Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>

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From: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
To: Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>
Cc: Peter Mount <petermount@it.maidstone.gov.uk>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pgsql-general@postgresql.org, Pavel@Janik.cz
Date: 2000-07-12T14:24:46Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 12:17:28AM +1000, Philip Warner wrote:
> At 14:58 12/07/00 +0100, Peter Mount wrote:
> >Why not have it using something like tar, and the first file being stored in
> >ascii?
> >
> >That way, you could extract easily the human readable SQL but still pipe the
> >blobs to stdout.
> 
> If anyone can send me a nice interface for reading and writing a tar file
> from C, I'll do it. I just don't have the inclination to learn about tar
> internals at the moment. By 'nice' I mean that I would like:

i suspect you might find a library of either tar or cpio read functions as
part of the FreeBSD sysinstall utility.

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