Re: pg_dump documentation page

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
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