Re: [HACKERS] Hot Backup Ability

On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Duane Currie wrote:

> Anyway, version 6.5 apparently supports hot backups by using MVCC
> to give a view of a consistent version of the database during a
> pg_dump (http://postgresql.nextpath.com/doxlist.html  search for 'backup')

The string "backup" does not appear on that page, or on the "Documentation"
page linked off of there.  The section on backups in the integrated manual
doesn't say anything about MVCC.

Did any MVCC docs ever get written?

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