Re: dump sizes changed...

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

Lewis Kapell <lkapell(at)setonhome(dot)org> writes:
> We recently migrated to a new server after having had the old one 
> running continously for over a year.  The first night that we did a 
> backup, the file produced by pg_dumpall was noticably smaller than the 
> one we got from the old server prior to the switchover (2.5 GB versus 
> 3.1 GB).

> Is this something we should be alarmed about,

It requires investigation at least.  Are these the same PG version, or
different ones?

We modified pg_dump awhile ago to be less verbose, but I think it was
only shortening the "comments" a bit; your result sounds too different
to be explained by that.

			regards, tom lane