Pierre Frédéric Caillaud wrote:
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>> Incidentally, we billed pg_dump as hot backup at some point.
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> mysql calls "mysqlhotcopy" a script that locks and flushes all tables,
> then makes a copy of the database directory (all queries being locked
> out while this is in progress, of course).
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Doesn't sound very "hot" to me. Tepid at best.
cheers
andrew