RE: Data Pump and compress on the fly in Unix

If datapump writes to its ouput files not just in a continuous append stream, e.g. updating dumpfile headers after all's done, then a named pipe cannot be used.  

Tanel.  

I'm not even convinced Oracle's software can tell the difference between a stream of bytes from a named pipe and a stream of bytes from a file.    

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