On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:00:10PM -0700, Roger Niederland wrote: > Using pg_dump from the command line with the exe included in windows > 32 bit install in postgresql 9.1. > pg_dump -U username -f somefile.sql.gz -Z 9 -i dbname please note that pg_dump --help shows: -Z, --compress=0-9 compression level for compressed formats hint: the part "for compressed formats" is critical. plain dump is not compressed, you'd have to use -Fc to get compression, but it's good to use anyway. Best regards, depesz -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general