On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:57 AM, SHARMILA JOTHIRAJAH <sharmi_jo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > But I need to pre-allocate some space for storing these dumps (there are other databases too that needs to be dumped). So Im trying to find a space estimate .... > Do you have a rough estimate of pg_dump in general... like 1/4 th of the database size or something like that...I just need a rough estimate for now Sadly, there is no exact maths for such things. If your database has tons of indexes and such, it might be 20 or 100 times bigger on disk than it will be during backup. If it's all compressible text with few indexes, it might be a 1:1 or so size. You can't really tell without running pg_dump. The advantage of doing pg_dump|wc -l is that the db doesn't have to be stored somewhere. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
