Re: Howto: Using PITR recovery for standby replication

"Benjamin Krajmalnik" <kraj@illumen.com> writes:
> I have tried using pg_dump, but discovered that the backup was not a =
> consistent backup.

Really?

> Back to the problem I faced when testing backups with pg_dump, it =
> appears that the backup was not a consistent backup of the data.  For =
> example, sequences which are used by some tables bo longer held the =
> correct values (the tables now held higher values),

Sequences are non-transactional, so pg_dump might well capture a higher
value of the sequence counter than is reflected in any table row, but
there are numerous other ways by which a gap can appear in the set of
sequence values.  That's not a bug.  If you've got real discrepancies
in pg_dump's output, a lot of us would like to know about 'em.

            regards, tom lane