Re: pg_dumpall storing multiple copies of DB's?

From: Bill McGonigle <mcgonigle(at)medicalmedia(dot)com>
To: Doug McNaught <doug(at)wireboard(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg_dumpall storing multiple copies of DB's?
Date: 2002-02-26 22:45:46
Message-ID: 928CDB16-2B0A-11D6-B91E-003065EAE3C0@medicalmedia.com
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On Tuesday, February 26, 2002, at 05:39 , Doug McNaught wrote:

> Are you doing the restore into a "fresh" data area (just initdb'd)?
> That's what pg_dumpall assumes you are going to do AFAICS.

I hadn't done that, but I did drop the databases first. The data is
stored multiple times in the backup, so the other problem is that this
problem gives me 1.8GB backups when I should have 300-400MB backups.

Thanks,
-Bill

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