Hi Marc, On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 03:52:16PM +0200, Marc Mamin wrote: > > You might add pigz as a post-processing step and disabling compression in pg_dump. > > The problem with this solution is that it make it necessary to > decompress the dump entirely before using pg_restore (or did I miss a > point ?) > This is an issue as our uncompressed dumps may reach 3-500 GB... Right, that would not work. > A better way would be to have a configuration option to tell which > compression tool should be used internally by pg_dump. Well, that would mean linking pg_dump with the library providing the compression you want. I suppose, only data is compressed, not the whole dump, e.g. dumping without compression then compressing is different from dumping with compression. Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.tisc.de -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
