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From: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
To: pgsql-generallists.postgresql.org <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Backup
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 16:00:30 -0400
Message-ID: <CANzqJaA_bNat1U3Ku4PARtDw99zvYaA-ERTEdK7TKTaJkDsJtA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 3:52 PM Tomas Vondra <[email protected]> wrote:
[snip]

> You didn't specify the Postgres version - that matters, because older
> pg_dump versions (before PG 16) do not support compression. Since PG 16
> you can use either -Fc or -Fd (instead of the tar format), and it'll
> compress the output using gzip.
>

Not true.  pg_dump has had built-in gzipping of directory format backups
since at least 9.6.  Probably earlier.
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