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Commit 08d715a2 authored by Peter Eisentraut's avatar Peter Eisentraut
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Document that pg_basebackup will create its output directory

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...@@ -122,6 +122,9 @@ PostgreSQL documentation ...@@ -122,6 +122,9 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
<listitem> <listitem>
<para> <para>
Directory to write the output to. 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>
<para> <para>
When the backup is in tar mode, and the directory is specified as When the backup is in tar mode, and the directory is specified as
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