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| author | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> | 2012-07-25 22:00:00 +0300 |
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| committer | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> | 2012-07-25 22:00:00 +0300 |
| commit | 08d715a2d48909cb5e42359e15f89927957ee3c8 (patch) | |
| tree | 0a1cb5a7b5ab1944226457456075e6b37bdec40d | |
| parent | 58f17dcf83dbd684613cbe8fea0886d2f81a3a14 (diff) | |
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Document that pg_basebackup will create its output directory
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml | 3 |
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml index ebd6e1e9f86..d22c0c5eb0e 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml @@ -122,6 +122,9 @@ PostgreSQL documentation <listitem> <para> Directory to write the output to. + <application>pg_basebackup</application> will create the directory and + any parent directories if necessary. The directory may already exist, + but it is an error if the directory already exists and is not empty. </para> <para> When the backup is in tar mode, and the directory is specified as |