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Re: zstd compression for pg_dump

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2020-12-21T20:02:40Z
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Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> writes:
> I found that our largest tables are 40% smaller and 20% faster to pipe
> pg_dump -Fc -Z0 |zstd relative to native zlib

The patch might be a tad smaller if you hadn't included a core file in it.

			regards, tom lane

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  1. pg_dump: Add support for zstd compression