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From The Hermit Hacker
Subject Re: Any reason to use pg_dumpall on an idle database
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Msg-id Pine.BSF.4.21.0005252049230.80347-100000@thelab.hub.org
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In response to Re: Any reason to use pg_dumpall on an idle database  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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On Thu, 25 May 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > On Thu, 25 May 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > 
> > > Seems a typical file system backup is fine on an idle database, right?
> > 
> > how do you know its idle, and/or will remain so?
> 
> pg_ctl stop of modification of pg_hba.conf.

ack ... why would you want to? *raised eyebrow*

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