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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml | 13 |
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml index 06d9c68ae0e..11aa4b963eb 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <!-- -$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml,v 1.65.2.2 2004/10/21 22:49:04 tgl Exp $ +$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml,v 1.65.2.3 2008/08/26 00:03:52 tgl Exp $ PostgreSQL documentation --> @@ -468,9 +468,14 @@ 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> |