online vs. hot backup (was Re: Type of application that use PostgreSQL)

On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 13:32, Network Administrator wrote:
> Quoting Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>:
>
> > On Thursday 02 October 2003 19:55, Network Administrator wrote:
> > > Quoting Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>:
> > > >      [stuff deleted]
[snip]
> The other thing is that I suspect there might be some confusion as to the
> difference between "hot backups" (dump of data does not require DB to be "down")
> and "online backups" (dump of data is not needed because on the disk state of
> the DB is current to some "recent" time).  To be perfectly honest, I've only had

Huh?  This is the 1st time that I've ever seen mention that there
is a distinction between "hot" and "on-line" backup.

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