full db locking during dump

From: Gregory Stone <guomo(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: full db locking during dump
Date: 2004-01-09 02:11:03
Message-ID: 20040109021103.25843.qmail@web14009.mail.yahoo.com
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I have a situation where I am doing a pg_dump from my database. I want to
make sure that noone is inserting into the tables being dump during the
dump. Does the MVCC architecture make it a moot point or do I need to
disable insert privileges during the dumping window? If so, is there an
easy way (i.e. one liner kind of thing) to do the temporary lock? I was
thinking I might need to write a stored procedure to change the write
privileges for the groups that have write access.

Thanks,

Gregory

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