Hi All,

I have a database with only one schema with 5 tables

nspname |       relname           |  size
     ---------+---------------------+---------
     sch     | job1                      | 211 MB
     sch     | job2                      | 5611 MB
     sch     | job3                      | 6584 kB
     sch     | job4                      | 89 MB
     sch     | job5                      | 39 MB

Total sum of sizes of the table is less than 6 GB.

When I do a pg_dump of this database it is 20GB (I also did a pg_dump of
only schema data and the size was still the same). I am using postgres 8.4.1
version.

Could any one explain why the pg_dump size of the file is 3 times the size
of the tables?

Thanks
Deepak

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