Re: inconvenient compression options in pg_basebackup

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 17:56, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> There is no way to tell pg_basebackup to "just compress the thing in a
> default way".  You have to pick some number and then write -Z8 or
> something.  I suppose that interface was copied from pg_dump, but there
> it's not that commonly used because the right formats are compressed by
> default.

It was copied from pg_dump, yes.


> I suggest we add an argument-less option -z that means "compress", and
> then -Z can be relegated to choosing the compression level.

We can't just use -Z without a parameter for that?

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