> > I'm just curious - when was the last time you restored a Postgres
> > database in this piecemeal manner, and how often do you do it?
>
> More curios to me is that people seem to use physical file
> based backup at all. Do they shutdown the postmaster during
> backup or do they live with the fact that maybe not every
> backup is a vital one?
I sure hope they shut down the postmaster, or know that nothing is
happening during the backup.
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