Re: pg_dumpall

From: Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Steve Clark <sclark(at)netwolves(dot)com>
Subject: Re: pg_dumpall
Date: 2008-01-17 19:08:07
Message-ID: Pine.GSO.4.64.0801171349150.2254@westnet.com
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On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Tom Lane wrote:

> There isn't any good way to guarantee time coherence of dumps across two
> databases.

Whether there's a good way depends on what you're already doing. If
you're going to the trouble of making a backup using PITR anyway, it's not
hard to stop applying new logs to that replica and dump from it to get a
point in time backup across all the databases. That's kind of painful now
because you have to start the server to run pg_dumpall, so resuming
recovery is difficult, but you can play filesystem tricks to make that
easier.

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* Greg Smith gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD

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