Re: database backup

Curt Sampson wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Doug Fields wrote:
>
> > >Then the shell script in the cron job can call pg_dump with the relevant
> > >options
> >
> > If you want to "incrementalize" it, you could always keep a base, and diff
> > the new dump against it, and store just the diff.
>
> Actually, I was wondering just yesterday, is there any reason that
> pg_dump should not be able to do an incremental dump? You could just
> give it a transaction ID and say, "dump all changes from this ID."

I think the problem is matching up rows in the old dump with the
incremental rows.

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