Re: database backup

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."

cjs
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