On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Glen Parker <glenebob@nwlink.com> wrote:
> Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote:
>> So like JD said, if you don't want to dump indicies - just use pg_dump...
>
> If pg_dump were an acceptable backup tool, we wouldn't need PITR, would we?
> We used pg_dump for years. There's a very good reason we no longer do.
> That suggestion is silly.
pg_dump is a perfectly acceptable backup tool, as is PITR. They have
different ways of operating based on what you need. Trying to make
PITR act more like pg_dump seems kind of silly to me.
