Re: [HACKERS] compression in LO and other fields - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Don Baccus
Subject Re: [HACKERS] compression in LO and other fields
Date
Msg-id 3.0.1.32.19991112100957.010f0300@mail.pacifier.com
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] compression in LO and other fields  (Karel Zak - Zakkr <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>)
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At 05:15 PM 11/12/99 +0100, Karel Zak - Zakkr wrote:

>> pg_dump database | gzip >db.out.gz

> Thank... :-)) 

> But mysqldump --compress is very nice.

Why add functionality for something that can be done so
easily by piping the output of pg_dump?

This is exactly the kind of coupling of tools that pipes
were invented for.



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