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On 12/22/06 01:22, Tom Lane wrote:
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
>> Besides, since pg_dump is single-threaded, backing up a huge
>> database gets impossible. Federating the database allows multiple
>> pg_dumps to simultaneously dump data to multiple tape drives.
>
> ... as long as you don't care about having a self-consistent dump ...
Nothing's perfect.
A pg_backup that writes multiple simultaneous data streams that are,
when taken as a unit, self-consistent would be tres' useful for Very
Large databases.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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