If you are really so desparate to save a couple of GB that you are resorting to -Z9 then I'd suggest using bzip2 instead.
bzip is designed for things like installer images where there will be massive amounts of downloads, so it uses a ton of cpu during compression, but usually less than -Z9 and makes a better result.
Cheers
Dave
On Mar 21, 2010 10:50 AM, "David Newall" <postgresql@davidnewall.com> wrote:
Tom Lane wrote:
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> I would bet that the reason for the slow throughput is that gzip
> is fruitlessl... Indeed, I didn't expect much reduction in size, but I also didn't expect a four-order of magnitude increase in run-time (i.e. output at 10MB/second going down to 500KB/second), particularly as my estimate was based on gzipping a previously gzipped file. I think it's probably pathological data, as it were. Might even be of interest to gzip's maintainers.