Andrew Dunstan wrote: > David Fetter wrote: > >As with "in-place upgrades,"[1] the compelling use case is being short > >on disk space. For somebody with a multi-TB (or whatever figure > >sounds big this week) PostgreSQL database, it may be impossible to get > >space for twice or more that. Giving people the option to stream > >COPYs through a pipe would alleviate a lot of pain. > > But why is that hugely better than piping psql output to gzip?
psql output has already travelled over the network. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
