On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 12:04:26PM -0800, George Herbert wrote:
This may be an argument for using PostgreSQL instead of MySQL for your site
- the PostgreSQL "pg_dump" command doesn't cause a read or write lock on the
database, so nobody using it gets blocked. Things do slow down a bit, but you can keep right on reading or updating through the dump.
While still preserving coherence between all the table's it's backing up, right?
Cheers, -- jr "isn't MVCC great?" a