am Mon, dem 05.03.2007, um 20:25:21 +0530 mailte Ravindran G-TLS,Chennai. folgendes: > Dear All, > > I have to take backup of a database as a SQL file using the pg_dump utility > and > I have to check the disk space > > before taking the backup. Hence I need to estimate the size of the pg_dump > output.
You can take a empty backup by pipe the output to wc -c. Is this a solution for you? You can see the result size in bytes. Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) GnuPG-ID: 0x3FFF606C, privat 0x7F4584DA http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
