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Feature Request: bzip2 support in pg_dump, pg_restore

Daniel Migowski <dmigowski@ikoffice.de>

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From: Daniel Migowski <dmigowski@ikoffice.de>
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-08-13T08:57:13Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
Hi, dear postgres developers,

A small investigation showed to me that bzip2 compressed sql files take 
only 60% of the space of gz compressed files. Since bzip2 is fairly 
common today, could one add an option to pg_dump and pg_restore 
supporting this compression type in their custom format? Or do the 
PostgreSQL folks prefer no to do that regarding backwards compatibility?

Regards,
Daniel Migowski

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