Pierre Frédéric Caillaud wrote:

Incidentally, we billed pg_dump as hot backup at some point.

mysql calls "mysqlhotcopy" a script that locks and flushes all tables, then makes a copy of the database directory (all queries being locked out while this is in progress, of course).



Doesn't sound very "hot" to me. Tepid at best.

cheers

andrew

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