Re: problematic upgrade - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Jeff Flowers
Subject Re: problematic upgrade
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Msg-id 1101753954.513.209671444@webmail.messagingengine.com
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In response to Re: problematic upgrade  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> For sufficiently small values of "works", that might be true,
> but this procedure strikes me as unbelievably dangerous.  He'll
> certainly get zero sympathy from here if he finds any database
> corruption.
>
>             regards, tom lane


I know that there are a few ways to back up a PostgreSQL database but is
there any one method that is generally recommended above others?
Although my usage of PostgreSQL is strictly for personal use and as a
learning tool, I don't want to lose any data.


Thanks,

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Jeff Flowers

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