doc: Clarify how to generate backup files with non-exclusive backups

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

Commit: 89bd8e8b332841247649551e95c8d22c19a97529
Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Date: 2021-04-02T07:37:21Z
Releases: 10.17
doc: Clarify how to generate backup files with non-exclusive backups

The current instructions describing how to write the backup_label and
tablespace_map files are confusing.  For example, opening a file in text
mode on Windows and copy-pasting the file's contents would result in a
failure at recovery because of the extra CRLF characters generated.  The
documentation was not stating that clearly, and per discussion this is
not considered as a supported scenario.

This commit extends a bit the documentation to mention that it may be
required to open the file in binary mode before writing its data.

Reported-by: Wang Shenhao
Author: David Steele
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan, Magnus Hagander
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8373f61426074f2cb6be92e02f838389@G08CNEXMBPEKD06.g08.fujitsu.local
Backpatch-through: 9.6

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