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From: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: Mark Stosberg <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: suggestion for improving TMPDIR and "--format" docs for pg_dump
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 11:21:00 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

Am Freitag, 9. März 2007 03:30 schrieb Mark Stosberg:
> The tar format needs some space to create temporary files. By default
> "/tmp" is used. On systems with small "/tmp" partitions, set the
> "TMPDIR" environment variable to a location with more space, such as
> "/usr/tmp".

That is really standard operating system behavior.  We don't need to duplicate 
that information.

> It woud also be nice to document that the full names "custom" and "tar" are
> supported. Longer names can be nice for clarity.

They are.  You must be looking at an older version.

> ( Unfortunately, wrong formats like "txx" also work instead of throwing
> an error. )

Send a patch.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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