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| author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2021-01-13 13:30:04 -0500 |
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| committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2021-01-13 13:30:04 -0500 |
| commit | 0363b7e908cdbcac060b82e97232b35ab3caa484 (patch) | |
| tree | 13d9b3e9be1b16801c74ffb3b0a3e7be2fef29f7 | |
| parent | 0b2ae3c928b2926fafa1c423b07b949a4c3bc402 (diff) | |
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Doc: clarify behavior of back-half options in pg_dump.
Options that change how the archive data is converted to SQL text
are ignored when dumping to archive formats. The documentation
previously said "not meaningful", which is not helpful.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/161052021249.12228.9598689907884726185@wrigleys.postgresql.org
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml | 20 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml index bfe55ceb7b4..8dd126c2e43 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml @@ -178,8 +178,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation </para> <para> - This option is only meaningful for the plain-text format. For - the archive formats, you can specify the option when you + This option is ignored when emitting an archive (non-text) output + file. For the archive formats, you can specify the option when you call <command>pg_restore</command>. </para> </listitem> @@ -210,8 +210,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation </para> <para> - This option is only meaningful for the plain-text format. For - the archive formats, you can specify the option when you + This option is ignored when emitting an archive (non-text) output + file. For the archive formats, you can specify the option when you call <command>pg_restore</command>. </para> </listitem> @@ -457,8 +457,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation </para> <para> - This option is only meaningful for the plain-text format. For - the archive formats, you can specify the option when you + This option is ignored when emitting an archive (non-text) output + file. For the archive formats, you can specify the option when you call <command>pg_restore</command>. </para> </listitem> @@ -698,8 +698,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation </para> <para> - This option is only meaningful for the plain-text format. For - the archive formats, you can specify the option when you + This option is ignored when emitting an archive (non-text) output + file. For the archive formats, you can specify the option when you call <command>pg_restore</command>. </para> </listitem> @@ -899,8 +899,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation </para> <para> - This option is only meaningful for the plain-text format. For - the archive formats, you can specify the option when you + This option is ignored when emitting an archive (non-text) output + file. For the archive formats, you can specify the option when you call <command>pg_restore</command>. </para> </listitem> |