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

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/bin/pg_xlogdump/pg_xlogdump.c b/src/bin/pg_xlogdump/pg_xlogdump.c
index 9ad9321e1f9..5c546ceb797 100644
--- a/src/bin/pg_xlogdump/pg_xlogdump.c
+++ b/src/bin/pg_xlogdump/pg_xlogdump.c
@@ -679,8 +679,9 @@ usage(void)
 	printf("  -e, --end=RECPTR       stop reading at log position RECPTR\n");
 	printf("  -f, --follow           keep retrying after reaching end of WAL\n");
 	printf("  -n, --limit=N          number of records to display\n");
-	printf("  -p, --path=PATH        directory in which to find log segment files\n");
-	printf("                         (default: ./pg_xlog)\n");
+	printf("  -p, --path=PATH        directory in which to find log segment files or a\n");
+	printf("                         directory with a ./pg_xlog that contains such files\n"
+		   "                         (default: current directory, ./pg_xlog, PGDATA/pg_xlog)\n");
 	printf("  -r, --rmgr=RMGR        only show records generated by resource manager RMGR\n");
 	printf("                         use --rmgr=list to list valid resource manager names\n");
 	printf("  -s, --start=RECPTR     start reading at log position RECPTR\n");