From 691e595dd9c7786d37d73ccd327f8c2b6f0dace6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:39:04 +0200
Subject: Add -d/--dbname option to pg_dump.

You could already pass a database name just by passing it as the last
option, without -d. This is an alias for that, like the -d/--dbname option
in psql and many other client applications. For consistency.
---
 doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

(limited to 'doc/src')

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml
index 152edcbe6ed..6d0f214d423 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml
@@ -817,6 +817,26 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
     The following command-line options control the database connection parameters.
 
     <variablelist>
+     <varlistentry>
+      <term><option>-d <replaceable class="parameter">dbname</replaceable></></term>
+      <term><option>--dbname=<replaceable class="parameter">dbname</replaceable></></term>
+      <listitem>
+      <para>
+       Specifies the name of the database to connect to. This is
+       equivalent to specifying <replaceable
+       class="parameter">dbname</replaceable> as the first non-option
+       argument on the command line.
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       If this parameter contains an <symbol>=</symbol> sign or starts
+       with a valid <acronym>URI</acronym> prefix
+       (<literal>postgresql://</literal>
+       or <literal>postgres://</literal>), it is treated as a
+       <parameter>conninfo</parameter> string. See <xref linkend="libpq-connect"> for more information.
+      </para>
+      </listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
      <varlistentry>
       <term><option>-h <replaceable class="parameter">host</replaceable></option></term>
       <term><option>--host=<replaceable class="parameter">host</replaceable></option></term>
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