From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:00:00 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: Document that pg_basebackup will create its output directory
X-Git-Tag: REL9_3_BETA1~1164
X-Git-Url: http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=08d715a2d48909cb5e42359e15f89927957ee3c8;p=postgresql.git

Document that pg_basebackup will create its output directory
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml
index ebd6e1e9f86..d22c0c5eb0e 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml
@@ -122,6 +122,9 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
       <listitem>
        <para>
         Directory to write the output to.
+        <application>pg_basebackup</application> will create the directory and
+        any parent directories if necessary.  The directory may already exist,
+        but it is an error if the directory already exists and is not empty.
        </para>
        <para>
         When the backup is in tar mode, and the directory is specified as