On 15 August 2010 10:45, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/15/2010 11:01 AM, Thom Brown wrote: >> >> Is this right? I'm looking at >> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/backup-dump.html >> >> It says, "pg_dump does not block other operations on the database >> while it is working. (Exceptions are those operations that need to >> operate with an exclusive lock, such as most forms of ALTER TABLE.)" >> >> So pg_dump actually performs an ALTER TABLE sometimes? :S > > No it does not - it however blocks operations like ALTER TABLE while it is > running(which is exactly how I read the above statement). >
I'm not sure why I didn't read it that way now. :S My bad. -- Thom Brown Registered Linux user: #516935 -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs
