On 07/05/2016 10:54 AM, David G. Johnston wrote:
On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 10:54 AM, J. Cassidy <s...@jdcassidy.eu
<mailto:s...@jdcassidy.eu>>wrote:
Hello all,
I have hopefully an "easy" question.
If I issue the pg_dump command with no switches or options i.e.
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_dump -v dbabcd > /data3TB/Backup/dbabcd
Is their any "default" compression involved or not? Does pg_dump
talk to zlib during the dump process given that I have not
specified any compression on the
command line? (see above).
In general the easiest way to answer the question of whether
something (well, a text file at least) is compressed or not is to
attempt to open it in a text editor - if you can read the contents
its not compressed.
Reading the Description section at the following location provides the
answer you seek - no, there is no compression by default.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/app-pgdump.html
David J.
I like the 'file' command, and now the MS is shipping bash, it should be
available to all.
