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From Sam Mason
Subject Re: pg_dump estimation
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Msg-id 20080625081451.GQ2572@frubble.xen.chris-lamb.co.uk
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In response to pg_dump estimation  (Marcelo Martins <pglists@zeroaccess.org>)
Responses Re: pg_dump estimation  (Allan Kamau <allank@sanbi.ac.za>)
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On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:13:14PM -0500, Marcelo Martins wrote:
> is there a way to find out / calculate / estimate how big a pg_dump
> using plain text format for a DB will be ?

How about simply doing:

  pg_dump | wc -c


  Sam

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