AW: Modified pg_dump & new pg_restore need testing... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Zeugswetter Andreas SB
Subject AW: Modified pg_dump & new pg_restore need testing...
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Msg-id 219F68D65015D011A8E000006F8590C605BA59AE@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at
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> - the default output file format is a custom format with compressed
> sections (the data dumps). It is NOT a text file.

Can this be turned off, or made to be feature, that you can turn on ? 
Imho most dumps will be piped to a locally 
optimized compressor (a tape, a storage manager, lzop, ...) anyway, 
thus most of the time a backup would compress twice.

Andreas


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