From: Glyn Astill <glynastill@yahoo.co.uk>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: DB Dump Size
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:57:42 +0000 (GMT)
Message-ID: <195974.83929.qm@web25806.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4b73e5d30df8b0e1a0939291a5a16c31@127.0.0.1>
> I am also curious as to why an SQL dump from the production
> server would
> come out to 2.8G but a dump of an exact replica on a test
> box would come
> out to 3.0G. What determines the size and makeup of an SQL
> dump?
Why not repeat the dump without any compression then compare them with a file comparison tool?
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