Feature Request: bzip2 support in pg_dump, pg_restore

Daniel Migowski <dmigowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:57:13 +0200

Hi, dear postgres developers,

A small investigation showed to me that bzip2 compressed sql files take
only 60% of the space of gz compressed files. Since bzip2 is fairly
common today, could one add an option to pg_dump and pg_restore
supporting this compression type in their custom format? Or do the
PostgreSQL folks prefer no to do that regarding backwards compatibility?

Regards,

Daniel Migowski

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