pg_dump warning message

From: David Rickard <David(dot)Rickard(at)GTScompanies(dot)com>
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pg_dump warning message
Date: 2004-04-12 16:24:01
Message-ID: 5.2.1.1.0.20040412091611.032cd548@mail.gtscompanies.com
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-novice

Postgres version: 7.3.4
Environment: Solaris (SunOS 5.9) Ultra-250
We use pg_dump to do a nightly export of all databases, via these commands:

for instance in $(get_instances) ; do
outfile=${exportdir}/${instance}~EXPORT~${ymd}.sql
su - ${pg_user} -c "${pg_home}/bin/pg_dump -c -C -D -F c -f ${outfile}
${instance}"
gzip ${outfile}
done

The pg_dump switches indicate a "custom" file format, and the output file
is a standard plain-text UNIX file.
Nevertheless, when the export runs, it throws this warning for each
database instance:

pg_dump: [archiver] WARNING: requested compression not available in this
installation - archive will be uncompressed

This does not appear to affect the contents of the export file--but it
would be nice to understand what is generating these messages--and to
eliminate the chatter (which the system crontab treats as error messages);

--

David Rickard
Software Engineer
The GTS Companies
A TechBooks Company

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The GTS Companies:
GTS Publishing Services, GTS Graphics, GTS Innova:
Your Single-Source Solution!
Los Angeles CA * York, PA * Boston MA * New Delhi, India
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

David(dot)Rickard(at)GTSCompanies(dot)com
Visit us on the World Wide Web
http://www.gtscompanies.com
5650 Jillson St., Los Angeles, CA 90040
(323) 888-8889 x331
(323) 888-1849 [fax]

Responses

Browse pgsql-novice by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Tom Lane 2004-04-12 18:36:21 Re: pg_dump warning message
Previous Message Manfred Koroschetz 2004-04-11 00:29:15 Re: Help for MSSQL "Compute" equivalent in Postgres