Re: About compress in pg_dump

Yep, I transfer backups files all the time with -Fc and never the
problem was rsync

On 2020-07-17 12:07, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 7:49 AM Edmundo Robles <edmundo(at)sw-argos(dot)com
> <mailto:edmundo(at)sw-argos(dot)com>> wrote:
>
> To backup  a database  I do:
>  nice -n +19  pg_dump -Fc  database | nice -n +19 gzip --rsyncable
>   -nc >  database.dump
>
> If -Fc  option  is compressed  by default  I dont need gzip the
> backup,  but I need pass --rsyncable and -n options.
>
> How can  I pass  gzip options  to compress in pg_dump?
>
>
> pg_dump isn't using the gzip program, it's just performing compression
> per the gzip compression specification, and doesn't provide those two
> features to control it's processing (or any features beyond what's
> documented on the pg_dump reference page).
>
> David J.
>