Received: from localhost (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95A369FC1AF for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 22:30:25 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 19139-08 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 22:30:19 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from floppy.pyrenet.fr (news.pyrenet.fr [194.116.145.2]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A9369FC19A for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 22:30:24 -0400 (AST) Received: by floppy.pyrenet.fr (Postfix, from userid 106) id A3FAC3090A; Fri, 9 Mar 2007 03:30:23 +0100 (MET) From: Mark Stosberg X-Newsgroups: pgsql.docs Subject: suggestion for improving TMPDIR and "--format" docs for pg_dump Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:30:22 -0500 Organization: Hub.Org Networking Services Lines: 19 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.hub.org User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070306) To: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200703/7 X-Sequence-Number: 4178 A suggested addition to the pg_dump docs: This would be an extension to the documentation for the "tar" format: 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". Also, I would like it if the pg_dump docs more assertively recommended one of the "tar" or "custom" formats. They seem very similiar. It woud also be nice to document that the full names "custom" and "tar" are supported. Longer names can be nice for clarity. ( Unfortunately, wrong formats like "txx" also work instead of throwing an error. ) Mark