On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 10:23 -0500, Mark Woodward wrote:
> If one db is REALLY REALLY huge and doesn't change, and a few
> others are small and change often, pg_dumpall will spend most of its time
> dumping the unchanging data.
>
My usual backup strategy does pg_dumpall -g to get the (tiny) global
data, and then pg_dump for each individual database. Quite apart from
anything else I prefer to have custom format dumps anyway, but I think
this should meet your need for less frequent dumping of some constant
database.
cheers
andrew