Re: database backup

From: Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>
To: Doug Fields <dfields-pg-general(at)pexicom(dot)com>, Darren Ferguson <darren(at)crystalballinc(dot)com>
Cc: Sanjeev Rathore <intmail2002(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: database backup
Date: 2002-07-07 03:03:12
Message-ID: 200207062303.12635.lamar.owen@wgcr.org
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On Saturday 06 July 2002 10:59 pm, Doug Fields wrote:
> If you want to "incrementalize" it, you could always keep a base, and diff
> the new dump against it, and store just the diff.

> Be sure to run the output through bzip2 (or gzip -9) to save space.

This doesn't work as well in practice as it would seem. Due to funkiness, the
output of pg_dump isn't (or wasn't the last time I tried diffing dumps)
necessarily always in the same order.
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Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
1 Peter 4:11

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