On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 11:06:39AM -0700, Jeff Janes wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Peter Eisentraut > <peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > > On 7/12/16 12:53 PM, Jeff Janes wrote: > >> The --help message for pg_basebackup says: > >> > >> -Z, --compress=0-9 compress tar output with given compression level > >> > >> But -Z0 is then rejected as 'invalid compression level "0"'. The real > >> docs do say 1-9, only the --help message has this bug. Trivial patch > >> attached. > > > > pg_dump --help and man page say it supports 0..9. Maybe we should make > > that more consistent. > > pg_dump actually does support -Z0, though. Well, sort of. It outputs > plain text. Rather than plain text wrapped in some kind of dummy gzip > header, which is what I had naively expected. > > Is that what -Z0 in pg_basebackup should do as well, just output > uncompressed tar data, and not add the ".gz" to the "base.tar" file > name? > > Cheers, > > Jeff >
Hi, Yes, please support the no compression option. It can be useful in situations where the bottleneck is the compression itself (quite easily done with zlib based options, another plug for a higher performance option). Regards, Ken -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
