On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 12:22:27PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: > I'm trying to understand better what happens to a transaction that is > commited in the middle of a pg_dump. Is the transaction included in the > database dump, or is it excluded. If you look at the pg_dump source code or turn on query logging, you should see that pg_dump starts with BEGIN SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL SERIALIZABLE See "Transaction Isolation" in the "Concurrency Control" chapter of the documentation for an explanation of what that means. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/transaction-iso.html -- Michael Fuhr
