2009/5/20 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> restore you can, kind of pause, by pausing data feed to it. (assuming
> you have a control over pipe, and you are using text dump format).
> as for pg dump, I don't think there's a way.
>
pg_dump should be pauseable, if you use your OS's job-handling tools.
For instance, in Linux, you can press "Ctrl+Z" while running a
program, and then run run "fg" later to resume it. You can also script
this with various command-line utilities.