From d32b17a5fde4f649103d3d56c69ea4ee1ed92ae7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Lane
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:03:52 +0000
Subject: Fix pg_dump docs to acknowledge that you can use -Z with plain text
 output.  Pointed out by Daniel Migowski.

---
 doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml | 13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

(limited to 'doc/src')

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml
index 06d9c68ae0..11aa4b963e 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>
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