Andrew,
I know it is my fault and a "manual not read error" ... but: have you
skimmed lately the PostgreSQL HTML-Docs wich get installed by the
installer beta2-dev3? ;)))))
Within "Server Administration" there is the topic "Backup and Restore"
- quite where everybody expects it.
22.1. SQL Dump says no word about formats that could get dumped...
and
22.1.1.explaines:
"""
The text files created by pg_dump are intended to be read in by the psql
program. The general command form to restore a dump is
psql dbname < infile
"""
within 22.1.3 there is also described the "official" (hey, it's the
official documentation!) way to compress pg_dumps
pg_dump dbname | gzip > filename.gz
(I took the liberty to update to "bz2" in my installations ...)
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Is there a special place to report documentations bugs or fixes to the
documentation? Because I am known for reading a lot of documentation
stuff (still looking for man girls) .... and if I do not stumble upon
this kind of information while skimming and googling; I really guess
there will be more in the windows world after PostgreSQL spreads there
who really do not find it (and I really wish it will flourish!)
>regarding your other suggestions, feel free to submit a patch to
improve the docs. ;-)
Could you please point me to a link how to do it best without causing
minimal trouble? The last "documentation patch" I suggested I described
in mail to Bruce Momjan ... around 3 years ago *G*
Thank you very much for all your help and all the effort that you have
put into PostgreSQL! I am a very very happy user of this database; and
really was frightened that there may be some "forgotten" probs with dump
/restore.
Harald
ceterum censeo PSQL needs a bug tracker
