As subjects, what will happen to the backup file while there is still many active transaction in the database. Does it export realtime or just partially backups ?
thanks in advance.
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As subjects, what will happen to the backup file while there is still many active transaction in the database. Does it export realtime or just partially backups ?
thanks in advance.
pg_dump runs in a serializable transaction, so it sees a consistent snapshot of the database including system catalogs.
However it is possible to get ‘cache lookup failed’ error if someone performs DDL changes while a dump is starting. The time window for this sort of thing isn’t very large, but it can happen. See: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2010-02/msg00187.php