X-Original-To: pgsql-docs-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEA209DCAE5 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 02:22:26 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 32341-05 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 02:22:22 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.21]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 80B639DC8A2 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 02:22:20 -0400 (AST) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 14 Feb 2006 06:22:17 -0000 Received: from dslb-084-063-000-219.pools.arcor-ip.net (EHLO colt.pezone.net) [84.63.0.219] by mail.gmx.net (mp004) with SMTP; 14 Feb 2006 07:22:17 +0100 X-Authenticated: #495269 From: Peter Eisentraut To: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Online backup vs Continuous backup Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 07:22:13 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 Cc: Bruce Momjian , Rick Gigger , Tom Lane , PostgreSQL-development References: <200602140403.k1E433D11802@candle.pha.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <200602140403.k1E433D11802@candle.pha.pa.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602140722.15168.peter_e@gmx.net> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.123 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.123] X-Spam-Score: 0.123 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200602/9 X-Sequence-Number: 3449 Bruce Momjian wrote: > I used your suggestion and renamed "online backup" to "incremental > backup", and added a mention that many database vendors call it > "online backup". Consistency would then demand that the other two be renamed to "full backup". I think we had better suggestions earlier. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/