Re: pg_dump compress

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Roger Niederland <roger(at)niederland(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, depesz(at)depesz(dot)com
Subject: Re: pg_dump compress
Date: 2011-09-25 17:43:28
Message-ID: 2835.1316972608@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Saturday, September 24, 2011 7:16:11 am Roger Niederland wrote:
>> [ pg_dump 9.1 no longer honors -Z when emitting plain text ]

> Not sure why the compression was removed, there is no explanation in either the
> commit or the release notes. If you are interested, the commit that removed it
> is:
> http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;f=src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c;h=7f508f1c6b515df66d27f860b2faa7b5761fa55d

It appears to me that this was just a careless misunderstanding of what
pg_dump is supposed to do with this switch. Heikki, do you recall any
intentional change here, and if so why wasn't it documented?

regards, tom lane

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