From: A. Kretschmer <andreas.kretschmer@schollglas.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Estimate the size of the SQL file generated by pg_dump utility
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 16:34:51 +0100
Message-ID: <20070305153451.GB29211@a-kretschmer.de> (raw)
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am Mon, dem 05.03.2007, um 20:25:21 +0530 mailte Ravindran G-TLS,Chennai. folgendes:
> Dear All,
>
> I have to take backup of a database as a SQL file using the pg_dump utility and
> I have to check the disk space
>
> before taking the backup. Hence I need to estimate the size of the pg_dump
> output.
You can take a empty backup by pipe the output to wc -c. Is this a
solution for you? You can see the result size in bytes.
Andreas
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