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From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: Space for pg_dump
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In response to Space for pg_dump  (SHARMILA JOTHIRAJAH <sharmi_jo@yahoo.com>)
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On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:57 AM, SHARMILA JOTHIRAJAH
<sharmi_jo@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
> How much space does a pg_dump usually take?
> One of my databases is 600GB.... How much  space do I need to dump this?

Note you can find out by doing:

pg_dump dbname | wc

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