Re: [HACKERS] 6.6 items

> 
> > - Up time. This means hot backup and no locking of the database during
> > vacuum.
> > 
> If Vadim made the change to make pg_dump dump in one transaction then 
> PostgreSQL already has "hot backup" in 6.5. This will do a consistent
> snapshot of your database as it was when pg_dump began as long as you 
> don't change the database layout during the dump.

Excellent point.

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