Re: Any reason to use pg_dumpall on an idle database

> > Well, I am not sure.  In the book, I say you can use a normal file
> > system backup if the database is idle, or use pg_dumpall and backup the
> > file it creates.  In fact, once you run pg_dumpall, there is no need to
> > backup the /data directory except for the few configuration files like
> > pg_hba.conf.  Does this make sense?
> 
> when you mean 'idle', do you mean 'read-only'?  else the files in
> /data/base/* would be changing, no? 

No, like everyone has gone home and nothing is happening.

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