Carl Karsten wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 4:15 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
> wrote:
> > A backup generated by pg_dump never includes writes that are in flight
> > while the backup is being taken. That would make the backup absolutely
> > worthless!
>
> Hmm, i kinda glossed over my point:
> if you come up with your own process to chop up the backup into little
> pieces, you risk letting writes in, and then yeah, worthless.
Ah, sure.
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