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Joseph Shraibman <jks@selectacast.net> writes:
> Doing a dumpall for a backup is taking a long time, the a restore from
> the dump files doesn't leave the database in its original state. Could
> a command be added that locks all the files, quickly tars them up, then
> releases the lock?
As I understand it, pg_dump runs inside a transaction, so the output
reflects a consistent snapshot of the database as of the time the dump
starts (thanks to MVCC); restoring will put the database back to where
it was at the start of the dump.
Have you observed otherwise?
-Doug
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The first was Texas medicine--the second was just railroad gin,
And like a fool I mixed them, and it strangled up my mind,
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