Re: PostgreSQL vs MySQL

On Thu, 20 May 2004, Robert Treat wrote:

> One potential issue with PostgreSQL and big databases would be
> upgrades and backups, which require dumping lots of data to disk which
> can be inconvenient. If I were a big company looking to switch to
> postgresql, I'd think hard about using some of the money I saved in
> license fee's to get in place upgrades developed.

This is an issue frequently raised with Bacula (http://www.bacula.org/).
How do I backup my 20GB database if I have only 1GB free diskspace?
Bacula can use a FIFO, although I've never used it myself.

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