Re: I don't want to back up index files - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: I don't want to back up index files
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Msg-id 1236814056.15576.1.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org
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In response to Re: I don't want to back up index files  (Glen Parker <glenebob@nwlink.com>)
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On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 14:25 -0700, Glen Parker wrote:
> Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote:

> > So like JD said, if you don't want to dump indicies - just use pg_dump...
>
> If pg_dump were an acceptable backup tool, we wouldn't need PITR, would
> we?  We used pg_dump for years.  There's a very good reason we no longer
> do.  That suggestion is silly.

*shrug* you can consider it silly. It doesn't change the outcome.

Joshua D. Drake

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