Re: pg_dump locking info

On 08/15/2010 11:01 AM, Thom Brown wrote:
> Is this right?  I'm looking at
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/backup-dump.html
>
> It says, "pg_dump does not block other operations on the database
> while it is working. (Exceptions are those operations that need to
> operate with an exclusive lock, such as most forms of ALTER TABLE.)"
>
> So pg_dump actually performs an ALTER TABLE sometimes? :S

No it does not - it however blocks operations like ALTER TABLE while it
is running(which is exactly how I read the above statement).


Stefan