Re: pg_dump compress

On Thursday, September 22, 2011 11:00:10 pm Roger Niederland wrote:
> Using pg_dump from the command line with the exe included in windows 32
> bit install in postgresql 9.1.
> pg_dump -U username -f somefile.sql.gz -Z 9 -i dbname
>
> outputs a file that is in plain text. In previous versions of
> postgresql, this output a gzipped file.
> Also tried: pg_dump -U username -Z 9 -i dbname > somefile.sql.gz
> got the same results.
>
> Tried to revert to a previous version of pg_dump from pgadmin 1.12.
> The dump is aborted because of server version mismatch (server version
> 9.1.0; pg_dump version: 9.0.1)
>
> Looked at the pg_dump documentation and it was not noted that the -Z
> option changed.

I set up a 9.1 installation on my Linux machine and can confirm that the 9.1
version of pg_dump does not compress plain text format dump files.

>
> Roger

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