On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 06:57:43PM +0000, Nelson Correia wrote: > Running pg_dump from another machine needs much space on the DB > host? Or it just outputs the data as it goes?
pg_dump should use very little space on the server, it just streams it out to where ever you tell it. You could run pg_dump on another host, or do something like: pg_dump mydb | gzip | ssh otherbox "cat > out.sql.gz" -- Sam http://samason.me.uk/ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
