On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> wrote:
It's always worth having the dump, even if you also implement PITR. The dump allows you to restore just specific tables or to restore onto a different type of system. The PITR backup is a physical byte-for-byte copy which only works if you restore the whole database and only on the same type of system.
Good point here, you really should have a 'logical' copy of your database around in case there is some kind of physical corruption in addition to Greg's good points.