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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 19:46:05 -0400
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: jim@jdoherty.net, pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Another pg_dump using split and gzip for large  databases
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On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 03:09:52PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
> 
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/backup-dump.html
> Description:
> 
> pg_dump ccbank | split -b 2048m --filter='gzip > $FILE.gz'

Wow, odd we didn't have an example of using gzip and split together; 
patch attached.

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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml
index 8c9186d277..96e7f06485 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml
@@ -273,10 +273,10 @@ cat <replaceable class="parameter">filename</replaceable>.gz | gunzip | psql <re
      The <command>split</command> command
      allows you to split the output into smaller files that are
      acceptable in size to the underlying file system. For example, to
-     make chunks of 1 megabyte:
+     make 2 gigabyte chunks:
 
 <programlisting>
-pg_dump <replaceable class="parameter">dbname</replaceable> | split -b 1m - <replaceable class="parameter">filename</replaceable>
+pg_dump <replaceable class="parameter">dbname</replaceable> | split -b 2G - <replaceable class="parameter">filename</replaceable>
 </programlisting>
 
      Reload with:
@@ -284,6 +284,14 @@ pg_dump <replaceable class="parameter">dbname</replaceable> | split -b 1m - <rep
 <programlisting>
 cat <replaceable class="parameter">filename</replaceable>* | psql <replaceable class="parameter">dbname</replaceable>
 </programlisting>
+
+     It is possible to use <command>split</command> and <application>gzip</application>:
+
+<programlisting>
+pg_dump <replaceable class="parameter">dbname</replaceable> | split -b 2G --filter='gzip > $FILE.gz'
+</programlisting>
+
+     It can be restored using <command>zcat</command>.
     </para>
    </formalpara>
 

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