> At 02:05 PM 4/6/00 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> >How do you get around vacuum downtime?
>
> People wait...I guess the point is we want to avoid as much downtime
> as possible. Before 6.5 came out with a consistent pg_dump utility,
> I was prepared to knock down the site nightly for backups. The
> appearance of consistent pg_dumps was a welcome surprise, what can
> I say? :)
>
> I posed the question because my assumption was that it wouldn't be
> that hard to roll it into pg_dump if it works well and is reliable,
> and that this would be desirable.
Sure. Of course, TOAST changes all that.
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