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| From: | Marc Fromm <Marc(dot)Fromm(at)wwu(dot)edu> |
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| To: | "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | pg_dumpall size |
| Date: | 2008-10-21 17:56:56 |
| Message-ID: | B0D7C0A3F35FE144A70312D086CBCA9B020A8229CC@ExchMailbox2.univ.dir.wwu.edu |
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I have the same postgresql databases on two different servers.
Boteh servers have the same version of postgresql, 8.1.
The following backup command creates a file twice as big on one server, compared to the other server.
pg_dumpall -c -U postgres | gzip > alldb.gz
Red Hat 5EL: alldb.gz is 29MB
Fedora Core 5: alldb.gz is only 15MB
Any ideas as to why the red hat box pg_dumpall file is about twice the size?
Marc
| From: | "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Marc Fromm" <Marc(dot)Fromm(at)wwu(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pg_dumpall size |
| Date: | 2008-10-22 02:18:23 |
| Message-ID: | dcc563d10810211918h42f47e25ubdec690bbe83262d@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Marc Fromm <Marc(dot)Fromm(at)wwu(dot)edu> wrote:
> I have the same postgresql databases on two different servers.
>
> Boteh servers have the same version of postgresql, 8.1.
>
> The following backup command creates a file twice as big on one server,
> compared to the other server.
>
> pg_dumpall -c -U postgres | gzip > alldb.gz
Different default compression levels for gzip? try gzip -6 or
something on both of them.
Otherwise, unzip them and compare sizes to see if they really are the
same unzipped.