Lewis Kapell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> We recently migrated to a new server after having had the old one 
> running continously for over a year.  The first night that we did a 
> backup, the file produced by pg_dumpall was noticably smaller than the 
> one we got from the old server prior to the switchover (2.5 GB versus 
> 3.1 GB).

> Is this something we should be alarmed about,

It requires investigation at least.  Are these the same PG version, or
different ones?

We modified pg_dump awhile ago to be less verbose, but I think it was
only shortening the "comments" a bit; your result sounds too different
to be explained by that.

                        regards, tom lane

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