Re: Space for pg_dump

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: SHARMILA JOTHIRAJAH <sharmi_jo(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: General postgres mailing list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Space for pg_dump
Date: 2009-03-31 15:49:30
Message-ID: dcc563d10903310849u5aec341q19ebbe315fd40304@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:57 AM, SHARMILA JOTHIRAJAH
<sharmi_jo(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> How much space does a pg_dump usually take?
> One of my databases is 600GB.... How much  space do I need to dump this?

Note you can find out by doing:

pg_dump dbname | wc

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