Carl Karsten wrote: > On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 4:15 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > A backup generated by pg_dump never includes writes that are in flight > > while the backup is being taken. That would make the backup absolutely > > worthless! > > Hmm, i kinda glossed over my point: > if you come up with your own process to chop up the backup into little > pieces, you risk letting writes in, and then yeah, worthless. Ah, sure. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
