Re: Is a plan for lmza commpression in pg_dump

From: Andrew Chernow <ac(at)esilo(dot)com>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, daveg <daveg(at)sonic(dot)net>, Dann Corbit <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com>, Stanislav Lacko <lacko(at)spacesystems(dot)sk>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Is a plan for lmza commpression in pg_dump
Date: 2009-02-08 14:59:43
Message-ID: 498EF35F.4030402@esilo.com
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> Why don't we just add an option to pg_dump --use-compress-program, just
> like tar and then people can use their "compression algorithm of the
> week" and we don't need to care about the licence or anything.

Can't this be done already?

pg_dump -Z 0 | compression_binary >mydump

If -Z is unspecified, I think it won't compress? Maybe you can just drop the -Z.

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Andrew Chernow
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