On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Tom Lane wrote: > Alternative thought: just recommend that if possible, people take > a filesystem dump of their old PGDATA directory after stopping > the old postmaster. This would be sufficient for retreating to > the prior version if needed. It might or might not be slower > than copying all the files to a new PGDATA ...
being able to do a dump to a gzip'd tar file might be an option here also ... should take a significantly less footprint to create the "backup", and on an idle server, shouldn't take any longer then other backup methods ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html
