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| author | Tom Lane | 2008-08-26 00:03:36 +0000 |
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| committer | Tom Lane | 2008-08-26 00:03:36 +0000 |
| commit | a76e18518067c50d9f9648f83461c8fe86416b8f (patch) | |
| tree | 2118319c4388f7d2b5ab26655f57de70394d09eb | |
| parent | 4040629fe13c18630768fc3c5ff84b3ff3a32fdf (diff) | |
Fix pg_dump docs to acknowledge that you can use -Z with plain text output. Pointed out by Daniel Migowski.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml index 577ae9b31c3..db89c56ab35 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <!-- -$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml,v 1.81.2.3 2006/05/13 17:11:02 momjian Exp $ +$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml,v 1.81.2.4 2008/08/26 00:03:36 tgl Exp $ PostgreSQL documentation --> @@ -497,9 +497,14 @@ 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> |