On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 08:57:28AM -0700, SHARMILA JOTHIRAJAH wrote:
> > Note you can find out by doing:
> > pg_dump dbname | wc
> Yes...I could find the space used after creating the dump.
> But I need to pre-allocate some space for storing these dumps
I'm not sure if you realize that you don't need any space for the
command that Scott showed (pg_dump dbname | wc). it will not write
anything to disk.
Best regards,
depesz
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