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| author | Daniel Gustafsson <dgustafsson@postgresql.org> | 2025-11-07 15:10:50 +0100 |
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| committer | Daniel Gustafsson <dgustafsson@postgresql.org> | 2025-11-07 15:10:50 +0100 |
| commit | 07961ef86625be91e243f1dff8911cb1d70e443f (patch) | |
| tree | 8ce72fe93fb162f32c6233126730a45cfb884456 /doc/src/sgml/ref | |
| parent | 0ab208fa505c04e2b3483de53a73edb71f9b9106 (diff) | |
doc: Fix incorrect wording for --file in pg_dump
The documentation stated that the directory specified by --file
must not exist, but pg_dump does allow for empty directories to
be specified and used.
Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reviewed-by: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/534AA60D-CF6B-432F-9882-E9737B33D1B7@gmail.com
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src/sgml/ref')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml index fd4ecf01a0a..5ac3f3e8510 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml @@ -297,8 +297,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation 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. In this case the - directory is created by <command>pg_dump</command> and must not exist - before. + directory is created by <command>pg_dump</command> unless the directory + exist and is empty. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> |