Ragnar =?iso-8859-15?B?S2rDuHJzdGFk?= <postgres@ragnark.vestdata.no> writes:
> So, basicly your database will be inresponsive for the time it takes to
> take a snapshot. The time will depend on the size of the device, the
> size of the pysical extents (the LVM "blocks") and the raw disk
> performance, but typically we're talking about periods shorter than a
> second.
We are? On what size database? Surely it takes longer than a second to
copy a reasonable-size database.
regards, tom lane
