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| author | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2017-01-10 22:38:13 -0500 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2017-01-10 22:38:13 -0500 |
| commit | 1c15f843485bf36e279686b6ed0b659232b975bb (patch) | |
| tree | 8343c15bc3b8037fb900f6328d2a80e07d37efeb /doc/src | |
| parent | 22a85b3fbe85a9f1c92de90192de001b7394b4fe (diff) | |
| download | postgresql-1c15f843485bf36e279686b6ed0b659232b975bb.tar.gz postgresql-1c15f843485bf36e279686b6ed0b659232b975bb.zip | |
pg_xlogdump: document --path behavior
The previous --path documentation and --help output were wrong in both
its meaning and the defaults.
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_xlogdump.sgml | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_xlogdump.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_xlogdump.sgml index 177caab00d4..16ca4434231 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_xlogdump.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_xlogdump.sgml @@ -117,9 +117,12 @@ PostgreSQL documentation <term><option>--path=<replaceable>path</replaceable></option></term> <listitem> <para> - Directory in which to find log segment files. The default is to search - for them in the <literal>pg_xlog</literal> subdirectory of the current - directory. + Specifies a directory to search for log segment files or a + directory with a <literal>pg_xlog</literal> subdirectory that + contains such files. The default is to search in the current + directory, the <literal>pg_xlog</literal> subdirectory of the + current directory, and the <literal>pg_xlog</literal> subdirectory + of <envar>PGDATA</envar>. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> |