On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 5:38 AM, Thom Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Another thing I noticed, going back to > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/backup-file.html , is > that it makes no mention of the fact that file system level backups > are useless if being used to restore in a different major version. > Maybe "There are two restrictions, however, which make this method > impractical, or at least inferior to the pg_dump method" should be > changed to "There are three..." and add the point that > pg_dump/pg_dumpall is mostly immune to such limitations.
Probably we need to say something a bit more nuanced than that, as there can certainly be wrinkles in that area. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs
