I am hoping to move to WAL backup from pg_dump. But I am confused by this note in 4.3 documentation:
Perform the backup, using any convenient file-system-backup tool such as tar or cpio.
And in postgres 9.0 documentation:
Perform the backup, using any convenient file-system-backup tool such as tar or cpio (not pg_dump or pg_dumpall).
So I am not allowed to run pg_dump? Or it's not allowed only for 9.x ? Filesystem dumps are useless to me as I need to restore 64-bit machine dumps on 32-bit. And I need to be able to restore separate databases.
If pg_dump is forbidden, is the only solution for me to setup slave replication and run pg_dump on slave?