Hello,
Anyone know if it is safe to do a pg_dump on a database while other programs might be making changes to the data? Is the integrity of the dumped data guaranteed? Does pg_dump lock the whole database when reading from it?
Thanks for all your help.
Hisham
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Hisham Al-Shurafa <ha********@rim .net> wrote: Hello,
Anyone know if it is safe to do a pg_dump on a database while other programs might be making changes to the data? Is the integrity of the dumped data guaranteed? Does pg_dump lock the whole database when reading from it?
It is safe to use pg_dump while other people are using the DB. It will
dump the DB as it was when the dump started so that the dump is a consistant
view of the DB. It does not lock the DB while doing this because with MVCC
it doesn't have to.
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On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Hisham Al-Shurafa wrote: Hello,
Anyone know if it is safe to do a pg_dump on a database while other
programs might be making changes to the data? Is the integrity of the
dumped data guaranteed? Does pg_dump lock the whole database when
reading from it?
read this: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/static/backup.html
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