On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 16:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > It will be difficult to have a consistent dump though. You can't do
> > that with separate transactions. (And you can't have multiple
> > simultaneous readers without separate transactions.)
>
> Absolutely, you're right. All "threads" must run from within the
> same read-only transaction.
>
The idea is that pg_dump already works and already creates a good
backup. Why not split up the data after pg_dump produces it? Of course
it should be split up in a stream fashion, like I suggested before in
this thread with my multiplexing script.
Regards,
Jeff Davis
