Received: from localhost (maia-4.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B63F9FB48A for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2007 06:21:14 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 36040-07 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2007 06:21:14 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from gauss.credativ.com (ipx11302.ipxserver.de [212.112.227.254]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB9189FB487 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2007 06:21:13 -0400 (AST) Received: from archimedes.credativ.lan (unknown [87.139.82.80]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gauss.credativ.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E833D75FA; Fri, 9 Mar 2007 11:21:02 +0100 (CET) From: Peter Eisentraut To: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: suggestion for improving TMPDIR and "--format" docs for pg_dump Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 11:21:00 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Mark Stosberg References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703091121.01155.peter_e@gmx.net> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200703/8 X-Sequence-Number: 4179 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/