Re: binary vs. txt dumps with pg

Jim C. Nasby wrote:

> 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...

Yes that is true.
What I forgot to mention is that our backups are made with rsnapshot.
This means that if files have changed, a complete copy of the file is
backupped....


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