Re: Full backup - pg_dumpall sufficient?

From: Raymond O'Donnell <rod(at)iol(dot)ie>
To: Gerhard Wiesinger <lists(at)wiesinger(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Full backup - pg_dumpall sufficient?
Date: 2009-01-29 16:56:07
Message-ID: 4981DFA7.6020000@iol.ie
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On 29/01/2009 16:31, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:

> I recently read some Mail on the mailinglist where some parts of
> PostgreSQL were not dumped with pg_dumpall and additionally some pg_dump
> was necessary (it was something like internals, catalog, etc.)

It's the other way around - pg_dump dumps just the specified database,
but not cluster-wide stuff like login roles; you need to do a pg_dumpall
to get those as well.

Ray.

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