Re: Database migration across different operating systems

Le mar.  8 janv., vers 11:26, Achilleas Mantzios exprimait :

> On 8/1/19 11:01 π.μ., Stéphane KANSCHINE wrote:
> > 
> > Le lun.  7 janv., vers 22:51, Natalie Wenz exprimait :
> > > 
> > > I understand that the recommended, safest, approach would be to
> > > dump/restore. We intend to do that wherever possible.
> >
> > It's not anymore since PostgreSQL have logical replication. You can
> > initialize you FreeBSD cluster with a pg_basebackup and you follow
> > updates with logical streaming.
> 
> Hmm, maybe you mean pg_dump --schema-only? I cannot see how taking physical
> copy with pg_basebackup will help with logical replication.

You're right, it's useless and counterproductive. I'm still on
holydays. But still, take a look at logical replication, it's way more
efficient than pg_dump.

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