Commit 06ed235a authored by Tom Lane's avatar Tom Lane

Doc: clarify behavior of back-half options in pg_dump.

Options that change how the archive data is converted to SQL text
are ignored when dumping to archive formats.  The documentation
previously said "not meaningful", which is not helpful.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/161052021249.12228.9598689907884726185@wrigleys.postgresql.org
parent d168b666
......@@ -176,8 +176,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
</para>
<para>
This option is only meaningful for the plain-text format. For
the archive formats, you can specify the option when you
This option is ignored when emitting an archive (non-text) output
file. For the archive formats, you can specify the option when you
call <command>pg_restore</command>.
</para>
</listitem>
......@@ -208,8 +208,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
</para>
<para>
This option is only meaningful for the plain-text format. For
the archive formats, you can specify the option when you
This option is ignored when emitting an archive (non-text) output
file. For the archive formats, you can specify the option when you
call <command>pg_restore</command>.
</para>
</listitem>
......@@ -456,8 +456,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
</para>
<para>
This option is only meaningful for the plain-text format. For
the archive formats, you can specify the option when you
This option is ignored when emitting an archive (non-text) output
file. For the archive formats, you can specify the option when you
call <command>pg_restore</command>.
</para>
</listitem>
......@@ -693,8 +693,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
</para>
<para>
This option is only meaningful for the plain-text format. For
the archive formats, you can specify the option when you
This option is ignored when emitting an archive (non-text) output
file. For the archive formats, you can specify the option when you
call <command>pg_restore</command>.
</para>
</listitem>
......@@ -924,8 +924,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
</para>
<para>
This option is only meaningful for the plain-text format. For
the archive formats, you can specify the option when you
This option is ignored when emitting an archive (non-text) output
file. For the archive formats, you can specify the option when you
call <command>pg_restore</command>.
</para>
</listitem>
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