Re: About compress in pg_dump

Diego <mrstephenamell@gmail.com>

From: Diego <mrstephenamell@gmail.com>
To: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>, Edmundo Robles <edmundo@sw-argos.com>
Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-07-17T15:12:47Z
Lists: pgsql-general
Yep, I transfer backups files all the time with -Fc and never the 
problem was rsync

On 2020-07-17 12:07, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 7:49 AM Edmundo Robles <edmundo@sw-argos.com 
> <mailto:edmundo@sw-argos.com>> wrote:
>
>     To backup  a database  I do:
>      nice -n +19  pg_dump -Fc  database | nice -n +19 gzip --rsyncable
>       -nc >  database.dump
>
>     If -Fc  option  is compressed  by default  I dont need gzip the
>     backup,  but I need pass --rsyncable and -n options.
>
>     How can  I pass  gzip options  to compress in pg_dump?
>
>
> pg_dump isn't using the gzip program, it's just performing compression 
> per the gzip compression specification, and doesn't provide those two 
> features to control it's processing (or any features beyond what's 
> documented on the pg_dump reference page).
>
> David J.
>