| From: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Chander Ganesan <chander(at)otg-nc(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Phillip Smith <phillip(dot)smith(at)weatherbeeta(dot)com(dot)au>, "'Dominic Carlucci'" <carlucci(at)cae(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org, carlucci(at)cae(dot)ca |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] Backup |
| Date: | 2008-01-31 13:28:48 |
| Message-ID: | 1201786128.4453.287.camel@ebony.site |
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On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 07:21 -0500, Chander Ganesan wrote:
> If you don't mind if you lose some transactions
That sentence has no place in any discussion about "backup" because the
risk is not just a few transactions, it is a corrupt and inconsistent
database from which both old and new data would be inaccessible.
As far as I am concerned, if any Postgres user loses data then we're all
responsible.
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Simon Riggs
2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com
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