On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 08:57:28AM -0700, SHARMILA JOTHIRAJAH wrote: > > Note you can find out by doing: > > pg_dump dbname | wc > Yes...I could find the space used after creating the dump. > But I need to pre-allocate some space for storing these dumps I'm not sure if you realize that you don't need any space for the command that Scott showed (pg_dump dbname | wc). it will not write anything to disk. Best regards, depesz -- Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/depesz / blog: http://www.depesz.com/ jid/gtalk: depesz@xxxxxxxxxx / aim:depeszhdl / skype:depesz_hdl / gg:6749007 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
