Re: Compressed Backup too big

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Andrus" <kobruleht2(at)hot(dot)ee>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Compressed Backup too big
Date: 2007-11-18 18:17:29
Message-ID: 6519.1195409849@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Andrus" <kobruleht2(at)hot(dot)ee> writes:
> I created query returning biggest tables with and without indexes and found:

> 1 pg_toast_22185 95 MB 96 MB

> 1. Tables are relatively small and thus cannot create 125 MB compressed
> backup file.

You have failed to consider that data that goes into a toast table is
usually compressed first. The above table is probably accounting for
close to 100MB of compressed dump output.

regards, tom lane

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