On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Greg Smith <gsmith@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Mon, 5 May 2008, Campbell, Lance wrote:
>
>
> > We currently backup all of our database tables per schema using
pg_dump
> > every half hour. We have been noticing that the database performance
> > has been very poor during the backup process. How can I improve the
> > performance?
> >
>
> Uh, don't do that? pg_dump works OK doing periodic backups during
> relatively calm periods, it's not really appropriate to run all the time
> like that.
Wow, my reading comprehension must be dropping. I totally missed the
every half hour bit and read it as every day. If you're backing up a
live database every hour, then yes, it's a very good idea to switch to
a hot or cold standby method with PITR
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