Re: fairly current mysql v postgresql comparison need for

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Arjen van der Meijden <acm(at)tweakers(dot)net>
Cc: "'scott(dot)marlowe'" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>, "'Randal L(dot) Schwartz'" <merlyn(at)stonehenge(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: fairly current mysql v postgresql comparison need for
Date: 2003-03-24 19:39:37
Message-ID: 200303241939.h2OJdbu06302@candle.pha.pa.us
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Arjen van der Meijden wrote:
> > [mailto:pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] Namens scott.marlowe
> > Verzonden: maandag 24 maart 2003 19:26
>
> > Oh, and another thing. How do you do hot backups of a MySQL database
> > running Innodb tables? Better get out the checkbook for some closed
> > source software.
> Please elaborate what you see as a hot backup tool?
>
> Is that, for postgresql, the pg_dump tool? In that case, mysql has the
> same. Mysqldump works fine with innodb-tables as well as for myisam
> tables.

Can the database be active during the backup, read/writes? pg_dump can
do that, and make a consistent dump.

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