[GENERAL] 8.3 INSTALL: Why must I backup while my database is busy?

[ljb]

>From the 8.3.0 INSTALL file:
| Upgrading
|
|   1. If making a backup, make sure that your database is being updated.

Ouch. Revert to the language in 8.2, perhaps:

    1. Make sure that your database is not updated during or after the backup.

---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives?

               http://archives.postgresql.org/