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| author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2008-08-26 00:03:24 +0000 |
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| committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2008-08-26 00:03:24 +0000 |
| commit | bc846323d3b83e992086702902548bdd71cfa4ee (patch) | |
| tree | 289187dd9610f9253a719205ef126501ba896a9b | |
| parent | 0ab43c96781f37a72ae4e1e897d1e10f56c484d2 (diff) | |
| download | postgresql-bc846323d3b83e992086702902548bdd71cfa4ee.tar.gz postgresql-bc846323d3b83e992086702902548bdd71cfa4ee.zip | |
Fix pg_dump docs to acknowledge that you can use -Z with plain text output. Pointed out by Daniel Migowski.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml index cecc03e7e66..c4028db4c4e 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <!-- -$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml,v 1.98.2.1 2008/08/21 22:26:12 momjian Exp $ +$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml,v 1.98.2.2 2008/08/26 00:03:24 tgl Exp $ PostgreSQL documentation --> @@ -602,9 +602,14 @@ PostgreSQL documentation <term><option>--compress=<replaceable class="parameter">0..9</replaceable></option></term> <listitem> <para> - Specify the compression level to use in archive formats that - support compression. (Currently only the custom archive - format supports compression.) + Specify the compression level to use. Zero means no compression. + For the custom archive format, this specifies compression of + individual table-data segments, and the default is to compress + at a moderate level. + For plain text output, setting a nonzero compression level causes + the entire output file to be compressed, as though it had been + fed through <application>gzip</>; but the default is not to compress. + The tar archive format currently does not support compression at all. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> |