Usually a dump is significantly smaller than a live database due to
space taken up by indexes and discarded tuples from MVCC. If it's
significantly smaller you may also want to take a look at your vacuuming
procedure.
But I'm not sure database_size() is.
Jason Minion
jason.minion@sigler.com
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From: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of mcelroy, tim
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 4:06 PM
To: 'pgsql-admin@postgresql.org'
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] dbsize & pg_dump
Please disregard this question. I'm using pg_dump -F c which compresses
the data a it backs it up.
Tim
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From: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of mcelroy, tim
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 4:40 PM
To: 'pgsql-admin@postgresql.org'
Subject: [ADMIN] dbsize & pg_dump
Good afternoon,
Probably an easy question but why are the file sizes differ so much
between these two tools?
For example:
A backup using pg_dump of our largest DB creates a file 384MB in size
Using the following SQL code utilizing dbsize I get the following:
FIX1=# SELECT D1.pg_size_pretty AS "FIX1_DB_SIZE"
FIX1-# FROM (SELECT pg_size_pretty(database_size('FIX1'))) D1;
FIX1_DB_SIZE
--------------
3832 MB
(1 row)
Is it safe to assume that pg_dump does a compression of the data?
Thanks
Tim