Re: Another pg_dump using split and gzip for large databases

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 11:27:20AM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> > On 29 Jul 2021, at 01:46, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 03:09:52PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
>
> >> pg_dump ccbank | split -b 2048m --filter='gzip > $FILE.gz'
> >
> > Wow, odd we didn't have an example of using gzip and split together;
> > patch attached.
>
> Maybe because the --filter option is only available in GNU split and not in
> POSIX, and thus not on FreeBSD and macOS etc. I'm not sure about what level of
> compatibility we strive for in the examples though.

OK, I can adjust it to say "GNU split" or just skip this addition.

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