Re: [GENERAL] disk backups

2000-07-02 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
Philip Warner wrote: At 23:34 1/07/00 +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: Philip Warner needs alpha testers for his new version of pg_dump ;-). Unfortunately I think he's only been talking about it on pghackers so far. What versions does it work on? 6.5.x and 7.0.x. Which

Re: [GENERAL] disk backups

2000-07-01 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
Tom Lane wrote: COPY uses a streaming style of output. To generate INSERT commands, pg_dump first does a "SELECT * FROM table", and that runs into libpq's suck-the-whole-result-set-into-memory behavior. See nearby thread titled "Large Tables(1 Gb)". Hmm, any reason why pg_dump couldn't do

Re: [GENERAL] disk backups

2000-07-01 Thread Philip Warner
At 23:34 1/07/00 +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: Philip Warner needs alpha testers for his new version of pg_dump ;-). Unfortunately I think he's only been talking about it on pghackers so far. What versions does it work on? 6.5.x and 7.0.x. Which version are you running?

Re: [GENERAL] disk backups

2000-06-29 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
pg_dumping the DB takes over half an hour (mainly because pg_dump chews all available memory). It would be nicer if we knew that tarring it up would work also... - Original Message - From: "mikeo" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [GENERAL] disk backups hi, would someone be so kind as

Re: [GENERAL] disk backups

2000-06-29 Thread Tom Lane
Martijn van Oosterhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a better way? Here pg_dumping the DB takes over half an hour (mainly because pg_dump chews all available memory). pg_dump shouldn't be a performance hog if you are using the default COPY-based style of data export. I'd only expect