Re: fairly current mysql v postgresql comparison need for - Mailing list pgsql-general

Arjen van der Meijden wrote:
> > [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] Namens scott.marlowe
> > Verzonden: maandag 24 maart 2003 19:26
>
> > Oh, and another thing.  How do you do hot backups of a MySQL database
> > running Innodb tables?  Better get out the checkbook for some closed
> > source software.
> Please elaborate what you see as a hot backup tool?
>
> Is that, for postgresql, the pg_dump tool? In that case, mysql has the
> same. Mysqldump works fine with innodb-tables as well as for myisam
> tables.

Can the database be active during the backup, read/writes?  pg_dump can
do that, and make a consistent dump.

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