| From: | hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz(at)depesz(dot)com> |
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| To: | SHARMILA JOTHIRAJAH <sharmi_jo(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>, General postgres mailing list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Space for pg_dump |
| Date: | 2009-03-31 22:00:06 |
| Message-ID: | 20090331220006.GA12545@depesz.com |
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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
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