Steve Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Dennis Gearon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > This doesn't provide what online backups do, of recovery to the minute of the > > > crash. And I get nervous having only logical pg_dump output, no backups of the > > > actual blocks on disk. But is that what everybody does? > > > > Gak!! It can never be guaranteed that the "actual blocks on disk" > > are transactionally consistent. Thus, the pg_dump output is suff- > > icient. > > > Hello all: > > > > I'm building a web-based app that is purely a query tool: no data can be > > added or edited. Postgres is the back end.
What does this have to do with online backups vs pg_dump ? Please don't follow up to threads with unrelated questions. In any case you're far more likely to see answers if you post a message properly as your message won't show up buried inside old threads in people's mail user agents. -- greg ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly