On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 3:52 PM Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me> wrote:
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You didn't specify the Postgres version - that matters, because older pg_dump versions (before PG 16) do not support compression. Since PG 16 you can use either -Fc or -Fd (instead of the tar format), and it'll compress the output using gzip.
Not true. pg_dump has had built-in gzipping of directory format backups since at least 9.6. Probably earlier.