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From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Is there anything special about pg_dump's compression?
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:11:38 -0500
Message-ID: <20071115161138.GI20228@crankycanuck.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <473C6E58.5010102@verizon.net>
References: <473C6E58.5010102@verizon.net>

On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 11:05:44AM -0500, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> Does pg_dump's compression do anything really special that it is not likely
> the tape drive already does? The drive claims 2:1 compression for average
> data (e.g., not already compressed stuff like .jpeg files).

It's zlib, if I recall correctly.  So probably not.

A

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