Andreas Pflug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Why is that a useful approach? You might as well shut down the >> postmaster and do a cold filesystem backup, >> > We're talking about *hot* backup, aren't we?
Exactly. The approach you're sketching can't work for hot backup, because it effectively assumes that the database won't be changing. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]