Re: Is a plan for lmza commpression in pg_dump - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Chernow
Subject Re: Is a plan for lmza commpression in pg_dump
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Msg-id 498EF35F.4030402@esilo.com
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In response to Re: Is a plan for lmza commpression in pg_dump  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
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> Why don't we just add an option to pg_dump --use-compress-program, just
> like tar and then people can use their "compression algorithm of the
> week" and we don't need to care about the licence or anything.

Can't this be done already?

pg_dump -Z 0 | compression_binary >mydump

If -Z is unspecified, I think it won't compress?  Maybe you can just drop the -Z.

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Andrew Chernow
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