Re: Performance of pg_dump on PGSQL 8.0

From: "John Vincent" <pgsql-performance(at)lusis(dot)org>
To: "Scott Marlowe" <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com>
Cc: "PGSQL Performance" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Performance of pg_dump on PGSQL 8.0
Date: 2006-06-14 21:16:19
Message-ID: c841561b0606141416w3c5cee35mc05d219700027755@mail.gmail.com
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time gzip -6 claDW_PGSQL.test.bak

real 3m4.360s
user 1m22.090s
sys 0m6.050s

Which is still less time than it would take to do a compressed pg_dump.

On 6/14/06, Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com> wrote:
>
> How long does gzip take to compress this backup?
>
> On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 15:59, John Vincent wrote:
> > Okay I did another test dumping using the uncompressed backup on the
> > system unloaded and the time dropped down to 8m for the backup.
> > There's still the size issue to contend with but as I said, I've got a
> > fair bit of space left on the SAN to work with.
>

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