On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Bruno Almeida do Lago wrote:
> Hi, > > 1) I've a pg cluster with 5 databases here. I was wondering if it's possible > to make an online backup of 1 database only, not the entire cluster. > Check out tool pg_dump or the documents for other options. > 2) Online backups at Oracle are done per tablespace. Do you see any > advantage on this? > AFAIK, In Oracle, a tablespace is a set of (logically related) files belongs to one database, so do tablespace backup is a natural option. PostgreSQL can have several databases sharing one tablespace, which makes the backup tablespace logically hard to understand, and we don't support tablespace level backup yet. Regards, Qingqing ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
