Re: lock entire database

On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 23:35, Benjamin wrote:
> Scott Marlowe wrote:

> Ok. The scene now.
> Machine A is the Primary, and Machine B is the backup for A.
> When B is booting up, it has to duplicate the entire pgsql db from A.
> As Ron said, cud do with a pg_dump. But, i guess, pg_dump takes quite
> some time. As A is already up, it wud be unwise to lock the db for so
> long. Also, even if i do go ahead with pg_dump, and then do a pg_restore
> on B, by the time data is being pg_restore'ed on B, a query cud modify/
> update the db on A.
> My idea was to lock the db on A, scp the required files onto B and then
> unlock db on A.
>
> Is the picture clear now?
>

In addition to my previous post, or wait until 8.0 and use pitr to do
this.