Whoever wrote the Arkeia pages was very confused. I've communicated with
them previously, but no one was home.
My understanding is that those are MySQL flag settings, not PostgreSQL.
Whatever, they certainly don't work with PostgreSQL.
"Tracking changes" while you do a dump is exactly what PITR does in v8.0,
now in beta.
Best Regards,
Simon Riggs
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> From: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Bruce Momjian
> Sent: 05 October 2004 02:59
> To: Dan Hrabarchuk
> Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Enabling --log-update
>
>
>
> No idea what that is but I have never heard of those flags. My guess is
> that is a hacked version of PostgreSQL.
>
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>
> Dan Hrabarchuk wrote:
> > I need to track changes to my database while I'm doing a pg_dump.
> >
> > I've found a reference to do this
> > http://www.arkeia.com/hotbackup/postgresql/ (see the second method).
> >
> > It states that I need to put my database in the "mode --log-update"
> >
> > I've tried to do this, but I keep getting an error saying that
> > --log-update needs an argument.
> >
> > I can't find any documentation on this switch. Please help!
> >
> > If I can't get this working my next alternative is to use either
> > http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/tablelog/projdisplay.php or
> > http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/audittrail/projdisplay.php
> >
> > I need to have the database available while the dump is done.
> >
> > Thanks is advance
> >
> > Dan Hrabarchuk
> >
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