PGSQL Phriday #001: Two Truths and a Lie
As a part of my own journey of learning within PostgreSQL, I've decided that I'm going to take part in PGSQL Phriday as often as I can, just as a way to continue to stretch my knowledge of this platform. Along the way, hopefully, I can help you learn a little too. The topic of this first post is Two Truths and a Lie about PostgreSQL. Now, the lie could easily be that I'm in any way qualified to talk about this topic, however, I can do a little better than that. Let's start off with simple, but important information, backups: Pg_dump can go to either a straight set of SQL, or, to a compressed digital formatPg_dumpall backups can be used to restore over existing databases with dataYou can use…