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| author | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2017-01-10 22:38:14 -0500 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2017-01-10 22:38:14 -0500 |
| commit | 73f8d7331343cefaaa97a0039421158fc8462c81 (patch) | |
| tree | ab40775817113252baa19ec88d8ad59fa7129e96 /doc/src | |
| parent | abfd0095c1e1a2e3fad2696516b64871895334ec (diff) | |
pg_xlogdump: document --path behavior
The previous --path documentation and --help output were wrong in both
its meaning and the defaults.
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_xlogdump.sgml | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_xlogdump.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_xlogdump.sgml index cfb6d87259e..078b08e2e6b 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_xlogdump.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_xlogdump.sgml @@ -117,9 +117,12 @@ PostgreSQL documentation <term><option>--path=<replaceable>path</replaceable></option></term> <listitem> <para> - Directory in which to find log segment files. The default is to search - for them in the <literal>pg_wal</literal> subdirectory of the current - directory. + Specifies a directory to search for log segment files or a + directory with a <literal>pg_wal</literal> subdirectory that + contains such files. The default is to search in the current + directory, the <literal>pg_wal</literal> subdirectory of the + current directory, and the <literal>pg_wal</literal> subdirectory + of <envar>PGDATA</envar>. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> |