From 6741688b169acc5fbcc4f198b209e9f3177579c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:03:15 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] 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(-)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml
index 39c64af8108..a419d8d9d2d 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 1.104 2008/08/21 22:25:44 momjian Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml,v 1.105 2008/08/26 00:03:15 tgl Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
@@ -538,9 +538,14 @@ 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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