public inbox for [email protected]  

help / color / mirror / Atom feed

From: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: pg_dump documentation page
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 10:41:33 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On Thu, 2020-01-30 at 01:26 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> I'm not certain but I think that on the page:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/app-pgdump.html, it should mention that
> to use the -j (jobs) switch, you can only use -F d (format directory.)
> Also, when using -F d, you need to use the -f (file) switch as well to
> specify the directory name. I didn't find that to be clear.
> 
> e.g.: pg_dump -j 5 -Fd -f "c:\pg backup" test_db

It says right there:

At the -j option:

"You can only use this option with the directory output format because this is the only
 output format where multiple processes can write their data at the same time."

At the -f option:

"This parameter can be omitted for file based output formats, in which case the standard
 output is used. It must be given for the directory output format however, where it
 specifies the target directory instead of a file.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
-- 
Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com

view thread (3+ messages)  latest in thread

reply

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Reply to all the recipients using the --to and --cc options:
  reply via email

  To: [email protected]
  Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
  Subject: Re: pg_dump documentation page
  In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

This inbox is served by agora; see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox