Re: Documentation clarification request: pg_dumpall and Large Objects
Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: "Radoulov, Dimitre" <cichomitiko@gmail.com>, pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2026-03-29T18:12:17Z
Lists: pgsql-docs
On Sun, 2026-03-29 at 13:55 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> writes: > > Commit 763aaa06f0 has changed the situation: with the addition of other formats > > than the plain format, it no longer makes sense to say that pg_dumpall > > is not useful for backup. Still, we should clarify what is *not* included. > > > The attached patch does that and in passing improves the readability. > > Pushed with trivial grammatical adjustments. I also failed to resist > the temptation to improve the newly-added text nearby. Thank you, Laurenz Albe
Commits
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Doc: clarify introductory description of pg_dumpall.
- e7b809ae7586 19 (unreleased) landed
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Add non-text output formats to pg_dumpall
- 763aaa06f034 19 (unreleased) cited