On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alternative thought: just recommend that if possible, people take
> a filesystem dump of their old PGDATA directory after stopping
> the old postmaster. This would be sufficient for retreating to
> the prior version if needed. It might or might not be slower
> than copying all the files to a new PGDATA ...
being able to do a dump to a gzip'd tar file might be an option here also
... should take a significantly less footprint to create the "backup", and
on an idle server, shouldn't take any longer then other backup methods ...
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