> > No, why would that seem to be the case? If it did so, then you could > not run pg_dump to dump data while regular activity was going on.
Not sure. In fact I am now confused. I am talking about pg_restore which is COPY FROM, which takes exclusive lock on the table while the data is loaded into the table. pg_dump does COPY TO which reads data out of the table to a file or something else.
