On tor, 2011-05-26 at 16:54 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > But if you want to take such an extension into account right now, > maybe we ought to design that feature now. What are you seeing it as > looking like? > > My thought is that "-z" should just mean "give me compression; a good > default compression setting is fine". "-Zn" could mean "I want gzip > with exactly this compression level" (thus making the presence or > absence of -z moot). If you want to specify some other compression > method altogether, use something like --lzma=N. It seems unlikely to > me that somebody who wants to override the default compression method > wouldn't want to pick the settings for it too.
I think of pg_basebackup as analogous to tar. tar has a bunch of options to set a compression method (-Z, -z, -j, -J), but no support for setting compression specific options. So in that sense that contradicts your suspicion. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
