On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 11:14:22AM -0800, Glyn Astill wrote:
> > begin;
> > set transaction isolation level serializable;
> >
> > --- begin dumping stuff;
> >
>
> Wouldn't that just lock everything so nothing could be updated? Or
> just the table it is outputting?
PostgreSQL uses MVCC, which means the whole thing is lock free. It just
requires more diskspace. To keep the older versions around.
Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
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