title: phpmyadmin export function - compression
body: <p>I tried to read the phpmyadmin documentation, but there is no reference about how the export function works!
  Is it using mysqldump?</p>
  
  <p>My problem is that I have a 1gb+ dB, which compressed is only 10 MB.</p>
  
  <p>Will phpmyadmin download the whole data and then compress it locally or will it let the server do the compression and give me only the resulting gzipped file?</p>
  
  <p>Ps: same question applies during the upload, will phpmyadmin upload a compressed file to the server and let the server handle it or will it decompress it first?</p>