Re: Does pg_dump custom format only compress the table data? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

Am 03.02.26 um 07:06 schrieb Laurenz Albe:
> On Mon, 2026-02-02 at 10:55 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> Out of curiosity, I opened that dump file in vim, and saw not only DDL strings but cleartext table data.
>>
>> Why isn't it compressed?
> Are your DDL statement large enough that you would expect that compressing
> them would offer any real advantage?
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe

That wasn't the question. It was about why table DATA aren't compressed, 
but in clear text.

Yours

Holger

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Holger Jakobs, Bergisch Gladbach