Re: pg_dumpall storing multiple copies of DB's? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bill McGonigle
Subject Re: pg_dumpall storing multiple copies of DB's?
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Msg-id 928CDB16-2B0A-11D6-B91E-003065EAE3C0@medicalmedia.com
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In response to Re: pg_dumpall storing multiple copies of DB's?  (Doug McNaught <doug@wireboard.com>)
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On Tuesday, February 26, 2002, at 05:39 , Doug McNaught wrote:

> Are you doing the restore into a "fresh" data area (just initdb'd)?
> That's what pg_dumpall assumes you are going to do AFAICS.

I hadn't done that, but I did drop the databases first.  The data is
stored multiple times in the backup, so the other problem is that this
problem gives me 1.8GB backups when I should have 300-400MB backups.

Thanks,
-Bill


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