Re: Upgrading Database: need to dump and restore?

From: "Carlos Oliva" <carlos(at)pbsinet(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Upgrading Database: need to dump and restore?
Date: 2009-06-04 11:31:51
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Thank you for your response Bill. It is helping us a great deal to
understand the issues around backups. Would any of the pg_xlog, pg_clog,
etc change for a table that has a stable structure and data? That is, the
table undergoes several inserts and then it is never updated
"Bill Moran" <wmoran(at)potentialtech(dot)com> wrote in message
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> In response to "Carlos Oliva" <carlos(at)pbsinet(dot)com>:
>
>> Can the synchronization with Slony run while the old database is still
>> being
>> updated daily? I am wondering if we can just let Slony run until the
>> databases are fully synchronized and then switch databases.
>
> Yes, and yes. That's exactly what Slony is for.
>
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