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Re: Backup using GiT?

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James B. Byrne wrote:

> GiT works by compressing deltas of the contents of successive versions of file
> systems under repository control.  It treats binary objects as just another
> object under control.  The question is, are successive (compressed) dumps of
> an altered database sufficiently similar to make the deltas small enough to
> warrant this approach?

Hmm, perhaps a not completely insane thing to do would be to use another
pg_dump "format" (i.e. a new -F option) which installs stuff on a GIT
repo.

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