Well, I'm doing the pg_dump thing at the moment.  If nobody has stepped up
to the plate by the time I'm finished, and if nobody objects to my style too
much (Tom, comments from the psql changes?), I'll have a shot.  This was the
reason that I started on the query string limit in the first place, anyway.

I'll be slowing right up on my day job at the end of next week, so I should
have a fair amount of time to stick into it for a couple of weeks after
that, which should be enough to get pg_dump finished.  

MikeA

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
>> Sent: Friday, October 22, 1999 8:04 AM
>> To: Vadim Mikheev
>> Cc: Bruce Momjian; pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
>> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Planning final assault on query length limits 
>> 
>> 
>> Vadim Mikheev <vadim@krs.ru> writes:
>> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> >>>> Any volunteers out there?  It'd be a shame to not have 
>> this problem
>> >>>> area completely licked for 7.0.
>> >> 
>> >> Welcome to the small club, Tom.  For the first 2 & 1/2 
>> years, the only
>> >> person who could tackle those big jobs was Vadim.  Now 
>> you are in the
>> >> club too.
>> >> 
>> >> The problem is that there are no more.  I can't imagine 
>> anyone is going
>> >> to be able to jump out of the woodwork and take on a job 
>> like that.  We
>> >> will just have to do the best job we can, and maybe save 
>> something for
>> >> 7.1.
>> 
>> > There is Jan!...
>> > But he's busy too -:)
>> 
>> > Let's wait for 7.0 beta - "big tuples" seems as work for 2 weeks...
>> 
>> Thing is, if Vadim could do it in two weeks (sounds about 
>> right), then
>> maybe I could do it in three or four (I'd have to spend time studying
>> parts of the backend that Vadim already knows, but I don't). 
>>  It seems
>> to me that some aspiring hacker who's already a little bit familiar
>> with backend coding could do it in a month or two, with 
>> suitable study,
>> and would in the process make great strides towards gurudom.  This is
>> a fairly localized task, if I'm not greatly mistaken about it.  And
>> there's plenty of time left before 7.0.  So this seems like a perfect
>> project for someone who wants to learn more about the backend and has
>> some time to spend doing so.
>> 
>> A year ago I didn't know a darn thing about the backend, so I'm a bit
>> bemused to find myself being called a member of "the small club".
>> Programming skills don't come out of nowhere, they come out of study
>> and practice.  (See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/loginataka.html)
>> 
>> In short, I'd like to see the club get bigger...
>> 
>> 			regards, tom lane
>> 
>> ************
>> 

Fri, 22 Oct 1999 09:43:01 +0200
"Ansley, Michael" <Michael.Ansley@intec.co.za>
RE: [HACKERS] Planning final assault on query length limits 