Re: PostgreSQL over NFS?

From: Mike Castle <dalgoda(at)ix(dot)netcom(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL over NFS?
Date: 2001-02-10 00:42:53
Message-ID: 20010209164253.A19998@thune.yy.com
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On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 04:23:10PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> Anyhow, if the idea is just to get a nice backup system, you could
> do a pg_dump and write the output to a NFS mounted FS, there's probably
> less that can go wrong with a large sequencial write than heavy shared
> read/write/seek.

Still new to this but....

Can pg_dump be piped through gzip et al? Use a few cpu strokes to save
network bandwidth may be beneficial.

mrc
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