Or use a SAVEPOINT. I don't know about the impact on resources if you leave it hanging around for a long time, but I use these for exactly the scenario you are talking about. - Ian On 4/16/07, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 4/17/07, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Seems overly complicated --- why don't you just shut down the postmaster > and take a tarball archive of the PGDATA tree? Then to revert, stop > postmaster and untar. Thanks for the tip! cheers martin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly