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Clarify pg_dump documentation

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

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Commit: 73687190d1e750b4ff94dd0213af7f5f4d3026a7
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Date: 2019-09-03T12:25:47Z
Releases: 12.0 
Clarify pg_dump documentation

Clarify in the help output and documentation that -n, -t etc. take a
"pattern" rather than a "schema" or "table" etc.  This was especially
confusing now that the new pg_dumpall --exclude-database option was
documented with "pattern" and the others not, even though they all
behave the same.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/b85f3fa1-b350-38d1-1893-4f7911bd7310%402ndquadrant.com

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doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml modified +21 −21
src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c modified +5 −5

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