From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: Marc Fromm <Marc.Fromm@wwu.edu>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: pg_dumpall size
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:18:23 -0600
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Marc Fromm <Marc.Fromm@wwu.edu> wrote:
> I have the same postgresql databases on two different servers.
>
> Boteh servers have the same version of postgresql, 8.1.
>
> The following backup command creates a file twice as big on one server,
> compared to the other server.
>
> pg_dumpall -c -U postgres | gzip > alldb.gz
Different default compression levels for gzip? try gzip -6 or
something on both of them.
Otherwise, unzip them and compare sizes to see if they really are the
same unzipped.
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