| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | "James B(dot) Byrne" <byrnejb(at)harte-lyne(dot)ca> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Backup using GiT? |
| Date: | 2008-06-13 17:36:12 |
| Message-ID: | 20080613173612.GA5070@alvh.no-ip.org |
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James B. Byrne wrote:
> GiT works by compressing deltas of the contents of successive versions of file
> systems under repository control. It treats binary objects as just another
> object under control. The question is, are successive (compressed) dumps of
> an altered database sufficiently similar to make the deltas small enough to
> warrant this approach?
Hmm, perhaps a not completely insane thing to do would be to use another
pg_dump "format" (i.e. a new -F option) which installs stuff on a GIT
repo.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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