On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:40:41PM +0800, Phoenix Kiula wrote: > Thanks. But there seems to be a tangible slowdown of DB operations > during the time that pg_dump is running. Yes. Pg_dump copies all the data out, so it puts load on your database and disks. A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx +1 503 667 4564 x104 http://www.commandprompt.com/