John R Pierce wrote:
APseudoUtopia wrote:
...
I was leaning towards pg_dumpall, but then I realized that it only
dumps in the standard SQL text file format, and it cannot be
compressed automatically.
pgdumpall .... | gzip > dumpfile.sql.gz
That deals with compression. But if you want to use the new
parallel-restore feature in 8.4 pg_restore which can be *way* faster if
you have multiple cores available then you will need to backup using
pg_dump with the custom format (-Fc).
Cheers,
Steve
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