Re: Feature Request: bzip2 support in pg_dump, pg_restore

From: Adrian von Bidder <avbidder(at)fortytwo(dot)ch>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Feature Request: bzip2 support in pg_dump, pg_restore
Date: 2010-08-13 09:31:32
Message-ID: 201008131131.33270@fortytwo.ch
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Heyho!

On Friday 13 August 2010 10.57:13 Daniel Migowski wrote:
> A small investigation showed to me that bzip2 compressed sql files take
> only 60% of the space of gz compressed files.

But bzip2 is very slow. I think if there should be changes to the data
compression, xz is probably the future. xz is said to be similar to bzip2
in terms of compression ratio, but much faster.

cheers
-- vbi

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