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From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Rick Otten <rottenwindfish@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Backup taking long time !!!
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 11:39:15 -0500
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Greetings,

* Rick Otten (rottenwindfish@gmail.com) wrote:
> Actually, I think this may be the way Oracle Hot Backups work.  It was my
> impression that feature temporarily suspends writes into a specific
> tablespace so you can take a snapshot of it.  It has been a few years since
> I've had to do Oracle work though and I could be mis-remembering.  People
> may be confusing Oracle and PostgreSQL.

Yes, that thought has occured to me as well, in some other database
systems you can ask for the system to be quiesced.

Thanks!

Stephen

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