Madison Kelly wrote: > Hi all, > > I am (re)writing a backup program and I want to add a section for > backing up pSQL DBs. In the planning steps (making sure a given > destination has enough space) I try to calculate how much space will be > needed by a 'pg_dump' run *before* actually dumping it. I suppose: pg_dump $PGD_OPTIONS | wc -c isn't efficient enough, right? Without knowing the options you plan to use with pg_dump (compression? dump just tables?, etc.) this is going to be hard to get a decent estimate from... -- Steve Wampler -- swampler@xxxxxxxx The gods that smiled on your birth are now laughing out loud.
