On Tuesday, January 19, 2021, Ron <
ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com> wrote:
For a project using 9.6, I have this command backing up a database:
So, for the 12 project, I copied it over, removing the "0", since I want these backups compressed.
The versions in use doesn’t seem pertinent to the observation - this behavior hasn’t changed (at least in the docs).
Since the -Z default is "6"
It is? Where do you see this?
I assumed that would compress the backup. It didn't, acting instead like "-Z0". Removing "-Z" made it compress.
This surprised me, and is very counter-intuitive. A bug?
That we accept a -Z parameter without a number without complaint would be a bug given the documentation doesn’t indicate the number as being optional. That “-Z” and “-Z 0” are equivalent makes sense if one allows “-Z”.
David J.