On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Greg Smith <gsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 5 May 2008, Campbell, Lance wrote: > > > > We currently backup all of our database tables per schema using pg_dump > > every half hour. We have been noticing that the database performance > > has been very poor during the backup process. How can I improve the > > performance? > > > > Uh, don't do that? pg_dump works OK doing periodic backups during > relatively calm periods, it's not really appropriate to run all the time > like that. Wow, my reading comprehension must be dropping. I totally missed the every half hour bit and read it as every day. If you're backing up a live database every hour, then yes, it's a very good idea to switch to a hot or cold standby method with PITR
