Re: dump sizes changed...

[Lewis Kapell <lkapell(at)setonhome(dot)org>]

Sorry, I should have given the versions.  The old server was running 
8.0.8, the new server is running 8.2.1.

Thank you,

Lewis Kapell
Computer Operations
Seton Home Study School


Tom Lane wrote:
> 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