The documentation for pg_dump says that dump files are created in a consistent state.
Is that true across multiple tables in the same pg_dump command? (Obviously it would not be true if I dumped tables using separate pg_dump commands. But if I put the database into a backup state using 'pg_start_backup', would separately executed pg_dump commands be in a consistent state across the set of dump files?)
The documentation for pg_dumpall does not say that its dump file is in a consistent state (eg, across all tables), but it does say that it uses pg_dump to dump clusters. So, how consistent are the tables in pg_dumpall files? --