Re: AW: Big 7.1 open items

> > I'm just curious - when was the last time you restored a Postgres
> > database in this piecemeal manner, and how often do you do it?
> 
>     More  curios  to  me is that people seem to use physical file
>     based backup at all. Do they shutdown the  postmaster  during
>     backup  or  do  they  live with the fact that maybe not every
>     backup is a vital one?

I sure hope they shut down the postmaster, or know that nothing is
happening during the backup.

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