At 09:09 PM 6/29/99 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> Just out of curiosity, I did a DUMP on the database while running a script
>> that ran a pile of updates. When I restored the database files, it was so
>> corrupted that I couldn't even run a select. vacuum just core dumped...
>When you say DUMP, you mean pg_dump, right? Are you using 6.5?
In his first note, he was proposing a scheme that would allow either
filesystem dumps or pg_dumps, which I think a couple of respondents
missed.
So I suspect he means a filesystem dump in this case. Which of course
won't work in postgres, or in Oracle.
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