Re: RE: [HACKERS] pg_dump & blobs - editable dump?

At 07:58 13/07/00 +1000, Giles Lean wrote:
>
>I recommend you compress the whole stream, not the pieces.  Presumably
>you can determine the size of the pieces you're backing up, and ending
>with a .tar.gz (or whatever) file is more convenient to manage than a
>.tar file of compressed pieces unless you really expect people to be
>extracting individual files from the backup very often.
>
>Having to pass everything through /tmp would be really unfortunate.
>

The only things I compress are the table data and the blobs (ie. the big
things); unfortunately, the table data is of unknown uncompressed size. I
*could* do two 'COPY TO STDOUT' calls, just to get the size, but that seems
like a very bad idea.


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