| From: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, samana srikanth <samanasrikanth(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Postgressql backup/restore question |
| Date: | 2009-03-04 22:13:50 |
| Message-ID: | 1236204830.31880.122.camel@ebony.2ndQuadrant |
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On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 16:27 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 15:37 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> It's not as easy as all that. What will you do with updates to shared
> >> catalogs?
>
> > Apply them.
>
> ... which leaves your other databases in inconsistent states.
Which is not a problem if you didn't want to restore them in the first
place. You might complain that we would need safeguards to protect
people from trying to access non-restored databases and then failing to
understand why they aren't there.
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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
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