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From Laurenz Albe
Subject Re: Does pg_dump custom format only compress the table data?
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In response to Does pg_dump custom format only compress the table data?  (Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>)
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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

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