Re: database response slows while pg_dump is running (8.4.2) - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alan Hodgson
Subject Re: database response slows while pg_dump is running (8.4.2)
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Msg-id 201006101600.58545@hal.medialogik.com
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In response to Re: database response slows while pg_dump is running (8.4.2)  (Aleksey Tsalolikhin <atsaloli.tech@gmail.com>)
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On Thursday, June 10, 2010, Aleksey Tsalolikhin <atsaloli.tech@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Thanks anyway - glad to hear dumping from a slave is
> a popular approach, that's what we'll do.  This is good,
> it'll allow us to increase our pg_dumps from 1 a day to
> as many as we want to feel safe.

You should look into PITR backups. You can keep a very current running
backup with little overhead.

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