Re: pg_dump documentation page

Hi Laurenz,

Regarding the first point, I can't believe I missed it. Sorry for wasting
your time and thanks for pointing it out.

Regarding the second point, if you are using the -F d switch, you may not
necessarily look at the -f switch, which is what happened to me at first.
Would it not be more explicit if under the -F d switch it said something
like, you need to use -f switch in order to specify the directory to be
used.

Thanks!
Daniel.

On Thu, 30 Jan 2020, 8:41 pm Laurenz Albe, <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> wrote:

> 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
>
>