On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 12:05, Tom Lane wrote:
> Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com> writes:
> > On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 10:47, Pallav Kalva wrote:
> >> I am working on a backup script for Postgres 8.0 online backups and
> >> since i have to copy the whole pgdata directory , i am wondering after i
> >> copy the pgdata directory can I run gzip or tar on the data directory ?
>
> > Generally speaking, file system level backups are not the best way to
> > backup postgresql, since they require either shutting down the server or
> > using a snapshot file system to get a coherent backup.
>
> In the context of online backup operations, that advice isn't relevant
> anymore ...
Really, is this an 8.0 thing then, that I can make file system backups
and expect them to be coherent, or did I misunderhear what you meant and
this has to do with some other issue I'm not getting?