Copying a database
Nikolay and Michael discuss copying a database — what the various options are, how to copy large databases, and some pointers on performance.
Here are links to a few things we mentioned:
- pg_dump
- pg_restore
- pgcopydb (tool by Dimitri Fontaine)
- pg_dump and external snapshots (blog post by Michael Paquier)
- Systems Performance (book by Brendan Gregg)
- Performance troubleshooting methodologies (two part talk by Brendan Gregg)
- pg_basebackup
- wal-g
- pgBackRest
- Database Lab Engine
- Database branching episode
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Postgres FM is brought to you by:
- Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai
- Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard
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- Jessie Draws for the amazing artwork
