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| author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2008-08-26 00:03:43 +0000 |
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| committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2008-08-26 00:03:43 +0000 |
| commit | c1758175f8a9da4d5e3fce0da9640398ab036007 (patch) | |
| tree | 44c91fcba7d4df9f919db6361370764a86c697bf | |
| parent | af3f5293ef64a3f981e8b2e736b5f18b0501ef9e (diff) | |
| download | postgresql-c1758175f8a9da4d5e3fce0da9640398ab036007.tar.gz postgresql-c1758175f8a9da4d5e3fce0da9640398ab036007.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 b876619361e..fae9881f0a4 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 1.76 2005/01/17 04:30:37 neilc Exp $ +$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml,v 1.76.4.1 2008/08/26 00:03:43 tgl Exp $ PostgreSQL documentation --> @@ -487,9 +487,14 @@ 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> |