From 8875a16ee15d6bed09b8f95e813eb74cb8d22fe9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:25:44 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention that pg_dump does not dump ALTER DATABASE ... SET commands; backpatch to 8.3.X. Also fix markup that had just one bullet. --- doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml | 38 +++++++++++++++-------------------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml index c8aae47b6f0..39c64af8108 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 1.103 2008/07/20 18:43:30 tgl Exp $ +$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml,v 1.104 2008/08/21 22:25:44 momjian Exp $ PostgreSQL documentation --> @@ -754,22 +754,13 @@ CREATE DATABASE foo WITH TEMPLATE template0; </para> <para> - <application>pg_dump</application> has a few limitations: - - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para> - When a data-only dump is chosen and the option - <option>--disable-triggers</> is used, - <application>pg_dump</application> emits commands to disable - triggers on user tables before inserting the data and commands - to re-enable them after the data has been inserted. If the - restore is stopped in the middle, the system catalogs might be - left in the wrong state. - </para> - </listitem> - - </itemizedlist> + <application>pg_dump</application> has a limitation; when a + data-only dump is chosen and the option <option>--disable-triggers</> + is used, <application>pg_dump</application> emits commands + to disable triggers on user tables before inserting the data + and commands to re-enable them after the data has been + inserted. If the restore is stopped in the middle, the system + catalogs might be left in the wrong state. </para> <para> @@ -782,11 +773,14 @@ CREATE DATABASE foo WITH TEMPLATE template0; </para> <para> - The dump file produced by <application>pg_dump</application> does - not contain the statistics used by the optimizer to make query - planning decisions. Therefore, it is wise to run - <command>ANALYZE</command> after restoring from a dump file to - ensure good performance. + The dump file produced by <application>pg_dump</application> + does not contain the statistics used by the optimizer to make + query planning decisions. Therefore, it is wise to run + <command>ANALYZE</command> after restoring from a dump file + to ensure good performance. The dump file also does not + contain any <command>ALTER DATABASE ... SET</> commands; + these settings are dumped by <xref linkend="app-pg-dumpall">, + along with database users and other installation-wide settings. </para> <para> -- GitLab