Re: datapump export to pipe

Original Poster here,...

RE:

 Now, what I'm wondering is why you can't still do the piped compression
> with expdp? Frankly, I used to do it all the time with exp, but I've not
> tried it with expdp

See my Original post:

BUT,.. as you may have guessed, my plan is flawed as expdp doesn't allow
> writing to a file that already exists, and of course the pipe must (exist
> that is)
>

If the PIPE exists, which of course it must, the expdb complains that the file already exists.

Tony

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