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Re: pg_dump & performance degradation

Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>

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From: Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>
To: Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, brianb-pggeneral@edsamail.com
Date: 2000-07-29T12:28:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
At 02:14 PM 7/29/00 +1000, Philip Warner wrote:

>>(AFAIR no one's ever asked for this before, so...)
>
>like most of these things (at least for me), it is personally relevant: I
>also experience severe peformance degradation during backups.

I can't think of any Unix utility that does this, offhand.

"nice" doesn't help at all when you try it?



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