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From: Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
To: Dimitrios Apostolou <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: In-order pg_dump (or in-order COPY TO)
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 15:54:52 -0700
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On 8/26/25 12:43, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I am storing dumps of a database (pg_dump custom format) in a de- 
> duplicating backup server. Each dump is many terabytes in size, so 
> deduplication is very important. And de-duplication itself is based on 
> rolling checksums which is pretty flexible, it can compensate for blocks 
> moving by some offset.
> 
> Unfortunately after I did pg_restore to a new server, I notice that the
> dumps from the new server are not being de-duplicated, all blocks are
> considered new.

What are the pg_dump/pg_restore commands?

What are the Postgres versions involved?

Are they community versions of Postgres or something else?

What is the depduplication program?


> Thanks in advance,
> Dimitris
> 
> 


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Adrian Klaver
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