Re: binary vs. txt dumps with pg

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
To: Dick Visser <dick(dot)visser(at)tienhuis(dot)nl>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: binary vs. txt dumps with pg
Date: 2005-12-19 20:43:33
Message-ID: 20051219204333.GF28771@pervasive.com
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On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 07:32:24PM +0100, Dick Visser wrote:
> You could work around it by disgarding the first X bytes when
> checksumming. Any idea what X would be?

I believe that by default the custom format is gzip'd, which also means
you probably couldn't exclude just the timestamp. Though if you're using
rsync, I think there's a good chance it would only tranfer the first few
hundred KB...
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