[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Sullivan) writes: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 01:28:29AM +0200, Hannu Krosing wrote: >> >> IIRC it hates pg_dump mainly on master. If you are able to run pg_dump >> from slave, it should be ok. > > For the sake of the archives, that's not really a good idea. There > is some work afoot to solve it, but at the moment dumping from a > slave gives you a useless database dump.
That overstates things a tad; I think it's worth elaborating on a bit. There's a problem with the results of dumping the _schema_ from a Slony-I 'subscriber' node; you want to get the schema from the origin node. The problem has to do with triggers; Slony-I suppresses RI triggers and such like on subscriber nodes in a fashion that leaves the dumped schema a bit broken with regard to triggers. But there's nothing wrong with the idea of using "pg_dump --data-only" against a subscriber node to get you the data without putting a load on the origin. And then pulling the schema from the origin, which oughtn't be terribly expensive there. -- "cbbrowne","@","ca.afilias.info" <http://dev6.int.libertyrms.com/> Christopher Browne (416) 673-4124 (land) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
