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From: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
To: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
To: pgsql-docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: per feedback I received directly, pg_dump manpage patch
Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 14:16:33 -0400
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On 5/27/15 7:17 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> The man page does not clearly state that pg_dump will not dump things
> like users or roles. It does mention briefly in the notes section that
> pg_dumpall is needed for items that are set via SET but that isn't very
> clear on the other items.

How about this patch?



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  [text/x-diff] pg_dump-note.patch (666B, 2-pg_dump-note.patch)
  download | inline diff:
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml
index a6e7b08..33a1902 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml
@@ -46,6 +46,12 @@
   </para>
 
   <para>
+   <application>pg_dump</application> only dumps a single database.  To save
+   global objects that are common to all databases in a cluster, such as roles
+   and tablespaces, use <xref linkend="app-pg-dumpall">.
+  </para>
+
+  <para>
    Dumps can be output in script or archive file formats. Script
    dumps are plain-text files containing the SQL commands required
    to reconstruct the database to the state it was in at the time it was


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