On Aug 15, 2:34 pm, Jerome Vitalis
<vitalismanN0S..._at_gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
> Brian Peasland wrote:
> > Chuck wrote:
>
> >> We're finally getting around to installing 10g and I had a question
> >> about expdp. We used to write our exports to named pipes so they could
> >> be compressed with gzip. Data pump doesn't support that. Is there *any*
> >> way around that limitation or do I need to continue using export/import
> >> if I want compressed files?
>
> >> TIA
>
> > Upgrade to 11g? It does allow for compression of data pump dump files.
>
> Wasn't it already there with 10gR2?http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/05-sep/o55asktom.html
> (§ Data Pump Compression)
>
> I haven't tested it myself.
10g does metadata compression only .. not data compression.
Received on Wed Aug 15 2007 - 13:47:40 CDT
