Re: inconvenient compression options in pg_basebackup

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: inconvenient compression options in pg_basebackup
Date: 2011-05-26 19:26:39
Message-ID: 1306437999.27440.0.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On tis, 2011-05-24 at 15:34 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I would argue that -Z ought to turn on "gzip" without my having to
> write
> -z as well (at least when the argument is greater than zero; possibly
> -Z0 should be allowed as meaning "no compression").

My concern with that is that if we ever add another compression method,
would we then add another option to control the compression level of
that method?

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