Re: binary vs. txt dumps with pg - Mailing list pgsql-admin

On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 07:32:24PM +0100, Dick Visser wrote:
> You could work around it by disgarding the first X bytes when
> checksumming. Any idea what X would be?

I believe that by default the custom format is gzip'd, which also means
you probably couldn't exclude just the timestamp. Though if you're using
rsync, I think there's a good chance it would only tranfer the first few
hundred KB...
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