| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Rob van Nieuwkerk <robn(at)verdi(dot)et(dot)tudelft(dot)nl> |
| Cc: | <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pg_dump consistent on live database with 7.0.3 ? |
| Date: | 2001-03-11 21:10:39 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.30.0103112209531.809-100000@peter.localdomain |
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Rob van Nieuwkerk writes:
> But I still have some worries: is it OK to run pg_dump on *live* databases ?
Yes.
> Do you get consistent dumps from it when there is inserting and updating
> going on ?
Yes.
> "Dumps created by pg_dump are internally consistent, that is, updates
> to the database while pg_dump is running will not be in the dump."
>
> That looks great. But we are using v7.03. Does this mean that the v7.1
> documentation is just more detailed and that the same applies to v7.03 ?
Yes.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://yi.org/peter-e/
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