On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 10:54 AM, J. Cassidy <s...@jdcassidy.eu> wrote:
> Hello all, > > I have hopefully an "easy" question. > > If I issue the pg_dump command with no switches or options i.e. > > /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_dump -v dbabcd > /data3TB/Backup/dbabcd > > Is their any "default" compression involved or not? Does pg_dump talk to > zlib during the dump process given that I have not specified any > compression on the > command line? (see above). > In general the easiest way to answer the question of whether something (well, a text file at least) is compressed or not is to attempt to open it in a text editor - if you can read the contents its not compressed. Reading the Description section at the following location provides the answer you seek - no, there is no compression by default. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/app-pgdump.html David J.
