Re: > 16TB worth of data question

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>
To: Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net>
Cc: postgres list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: > 16TB worth of data question
Date: 2003-04-29 21:05:40
Message-ID: 20030429160540.P66185@flake.decibel.org
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On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 01:01:39AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> But pg doesn't guarantee internal consistency unless you pg_dump
> the database in one command "pg_dump db_name > db_yyyymmdd.dmp".
>
> Thus, no parallelism unless there are multiple databases, but if there's
> only 1 database...

It would probably be useful if you could feed a specific transaction
id/timestamp to pg_dump, so that it will take the snapshot as of that
time. Of course, it'd probably be easiest if you could just tell pg_dump
to use X number of threads or dump devices.
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