Re: [HACKERS] Hot Backup Ability

Todd Graham Lewis wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Duane Currie wrote:
> 
> > Anyway, version 6.5 apparently supports hot backups by using MVCC
> > to give a view of a consistent version of the database during a
> > pg_dump (http://postgresql.nextpath.com/doxlist.html  search for 'backup')
> 
> The string "backup" does not appear on that page, or on the "Documentation"
> page linked off of there.  The section on backups in the integrated manual
> doesn't say anything about MVCC.
> 
> Did any MVCC docs ever get written?

http://postgresql.nextpath.com/docs/user/index.html:

10. Multi-Version Concurrency Control

Vadim