From: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>
To: mcelroy, tim <tim.mcelroy@bostonstock.com>
Cc: 'pgsql-admin@postgresql.org' <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: backups
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 10:57:07 -0500
Message-ID: <1147276626.9755.32.camel@state.g2switchworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0C4841B42F87D51195BD00B0D020F5CB044B2641@MORPHEUS>
References: <0C4841B42F87D51195BD00B0D020F5CB044B2641@MORPHEUS>
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 10:49, mcelroy, tim wrote:
> Greetings,
>
>
>
> Does the pg_dump command ‘backup’ the pg_xlog files?
No. Those are internal files used by the database to maintain
transactional integrity. The pg_dump command backs up the database as
snapshotted at a specific point of time.
What are you trying to accomplish?
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