> At 06:17 PM 4/6/00 +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> >
> >On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Don Baccus wrote:
> >
> >> If it runs as a separate utility, there's no way for it to guarantee
> >> a dump consistent with the previous run of pg_dump, right?
> >
> > If you dump your tables via pg_dump and promptly you dump LO via
> >pg_dumplo, IMHO you not have problem with DB consistency.
>
> Folks who have popular web sites with a world-wide audience don't have
> the traditional early-morning "quiet periods", etc that local databases
> tend to enjoy. Since my group of folks are distributing a web toolkit
> for general use, I tend to think in very general terms and any solution
> we distribute wants to be very general, as well.
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