Re: pg_dump of a big table

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Sam Mason <sam(at)samason(dot)me(dot)uk> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 06:57:43PM +0000, Nelson Correia wrote:
> > Running pg_dump from another machine needs much space on the DB
> > host? Or it just outputs the data as it goes?
>
> pg_dump should use very little space on the server, it just streams it
> out to where ever you tell it. You could run pg_dump on another host,
> or do something like:
>
> pg_dump mydb | gzip | ssh otherbox "cat > out.sql.gz"

Yes, from the other machine, run:

[user(at)notmyhost ]$ pg_dump -h myhost -U mydbuser mydb > out.sql

--Scott