Re: [GENERAL] Consistent state for pg_dump and pg_dumpall

2015-05-20 Thread John R Pierce
On 5/20/2015 10:44 AM, Michael Nolan wrote: When I moved to a new release of pg (9.3) last December, I stopped all transaction processing first so that pg_dumpall had no consistency issues. the only possible consistency issue would be if you have applications doing 2-phase commits to two di

Re: [GENERAL] Consistent state for pg_dump and pg_dumpall

2015-05-20 Thread Michael Nolan
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 12:40 PM, David G. Johnston < david.g.johns...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes. The entire dump is performed within a single transaction. > > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Michael Nolan wrote: > >> The documentation for pg_dump says that dump files are created in a >> consiste

Re: [GENERAL] Consistent state for pg_dump and pg_dumpall

2015-05-20 Thread David G. Johnston
Yes. The entire dump is performed within a single transaction. On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Michael Nolan wrote: > The documentation for pg_dump says that dump files are created in a > consistent state. > > Is that true across multiple tables in the same pg_dump command? > (Obviously it wou