Re: snapshot replication with pg_dump

On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 06:40:22AM -0700, Paul Silveira wrote:
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> Yes the needs are simple. I was also thinking about using DBI. The most
> important thing to me is that everything is kept in a transaction so that
> users can still read the data while I'm snapshotting it at the same time.
> If my transaction is isolated from all the reads happening, then it
> shouldn't matter how long it takes for me to move the data over (granted,
> that will increase latency, but in this project that's not really too
> sensitive) and it will be transparent to the end users.

Looks to me like the -c option to pg_dump should do what you want.

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