On 6/20/2016 8:48 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Marko Tiikkaja wrote:
>> >On 2016-06-20 5:23 PM, Jim Michaels wrote:
>>> > >both about and feature matrix on site should contain the critical
>>> > >feature that the db files can be backed up since they do not mod the fs
>>> > >under the hood like other DBMS. this is very important for me.
>> >
>> >Huh? You can ABSOLUTELY NOT take backups of postgres that way.
> Actually you can, as long as the server is stopped.
or if you bracket the backup with pg_{start,stop}_backup() calls...
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