On 01/15/2015 09:57 AM, girish R G peetle wrote:
Thanks Joshua. Even if we have a long transaction running on the database, pg_dump shouldn't be affected right ? As it doesn't block readers or writers.
Correct. It does not block readers or writers, it does however block routine maintenance most of the time, which will cause bloat to pile up, making your reads (and writes) go slower as the pages become more fragmented.
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