On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Christensen, Courtney ChristensenC@battelle.org wrote:
-----Original Message----- Given that the current dump process is having problem, why not provide a simple fix such as providing raw table format , SQL files or even CSV files?
Howard,
Can't you get the SQL files from running mysqldump from the command line? Why does something new need to be created? I hope I'm not being dense, but I don't understand what new niche you are asking to fill.
Because the data (text) isn't in a single database, even for a single project, it is spread across a large number of machines. It's also in a mixture of bizarre internal formats.
The file format it pretty much irrelevant to the 'cost' of producing a dump.