Re: pg_dump locking info

On 15 August 2010 10:45, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc> wrote:
> On 08/15/2010 11:01 AM, Thom Brown wrote:
>>
>> Is this right?  I'm looking at
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/backup-dump.html
>>
>> It says, "pg_dump does not block other operations on the database
>> while it is working. (Exceptions are those operations that need to
>> operate with an exclusive lock, such as most forms of ALTER TABLE.)"
>>
>> So pg_dump actually performs an ALTER TABLE sometimes? :S
>
> No it does not - it however blocks operations like ALTER TABLE while it is
> running(which is exactly how I read the above statement).
>

I'm not sure why I didn't read it that way now. :S  My bad.

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