Postgres version: 7.3.4
Environment: Solaris (SunOS 5.9) Ultra-250
We use pg_dump to do a nightly export of all databases, via these commands:

for instance in $(get_instances) ; do
outfile=${exportdir}/${instance}~EXPORT~${ymd}.sql
su - ${pg_user} -c "${pg_home}/bin/pg_dump -c -C -D -F c -f ${outfile}
${instance}"
gzip ${outfile}
done

The pg_dump switches indicate a "custom" file format, and the output file
is a standard plain-text UNIX file.
Nevertheless, when the export runs, it throws this warning for each
database instance:

pg_dump: [archiver] WARNING: requested compression not available in this
installation - archive will be uncompressed

This does not appear to affect the contents of the export file--but it
would be nice to understand what is generating these messages--and to
eliminate the chatter (which the system crontab treats as error messages);


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David Rickard <David.Rickard (AT) GTScompanies (DOT) com> writes:
This indicates that you built Postgres without compression support (no zlib).
The default for -Fc format, however, is to compress, and you get this
bleat because it can't do so. I think you can suppress the bleating by
adding "-Z 0" to the switches ... but it might be better to install zlib
and rebuild.

regards, tom lane

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