Re: pg_dump -Fd and compression level

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Marc Mamin <M(dot)Mamin(at)intershop(dot)de>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "'michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com'" <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: pg_dump -Fd and compression level
Date: 2015-07-25 01:50:42
Message-ID: 19955.1437789042@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> Hmm. Yeah. It looks like commit a7ad5cf0cfcfab8418000d652fa4f0c6ad6c8911
> changed from using the default compression for libz to using the
> compression set in pg_dump options, which defaults to 0. This actually
> seems like the right thing to do, but it certainly should have been
> called out much more forcefully in release notes, and arguably should
> not have been changed in stable releases. Not sure what we do about it now.

I don't think we realized that we were changing the default behavior.
Still, it's clearly a bug fix, so I'm disinclined to revert it now.

regards, tom lane

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